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Robotics, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2014 - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,140 Views
23 Pages

Design Issues and in Field Tests of the New Sustainable Tractor LOCOSTRA

  • Emanuela Elisa Cepolina,
  • Michał Przybyłko,
  • Giovanni Battista Polentes and
  • Matteo Zoppi

20 March 2014

This paper presents a robotized small tractor designed to perform humanitarian demining operations and agricultural operations when demining is accomplished. This dual use makes this system unique. The focus is on the design of the machine, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,947 Views
13 Pages

A Miniature Robot for Retraction Tasks under Vision Assistance in Minimally Invasive Surgery

  • Giuseppe Tortora,
  • Tommaso Ranzani,
  • Iris De Falco,
  • Paolo Dario and
  • Arianna Menciassi

5 March 2014

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is one of the main aims of modern medicine. It enables surgery to be performed with a lower number and severity of incisions. Medical robots have been developed worldwide to offer a robotic alternative to traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,591 Views
46 Pages

13 February 2014

Holistic visual navigation methods are an emerging alternative to the ubiquitous feature-based methods. Holistic methods match entire images pixel-wise instead of extracting and comparing local feature descriptors. In this paper we investigate which...

  • Review
  • Open Access
118 Citations
32,170 Views
21 Pages

30 December 2013

This article offers a brief overview of most current and potential uses and applications of robotics in health/care and social care, whether commercially ready and available on the market or still at the various stages of research and prototyping. W...

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Robotics - ISSN 2218-6581