Xiaoxu Jia

FIORA : A Flexible Tendon-Driven Continuum Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery

Aiming at solving the problems of low flexibility, poor internal extension, and chopstick effect in most laparoscopic surgical robots, this letter presents a flexible tendon-driven continuum surgical manipulator with eight degrees of freedom, called FIORA. The manipulator is composed of three indepe