Yosuke Fujisawa

Compliant four degree-of-freedom manipulator with locally deformable elastic elements for minimally invasive surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is one of the most successful applications of surgical robots. Although the introduction of robotic technology has brought a number of benefits, further advancements in MIS are limited by the size and bending radius of instruments. In this paper, we present a complia…