Actuators and Robots for Biomedical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is intended to bring together a collection of scholarly research articles that deal with actuators and robots, emphasizing studies related to applications directed to human biology, with a focus on medicine. We invite papers that deal with research into the design, control and biomedical application of modern robots and all types of actuators and actuation technologies, actuator control systems, and their biomedical applications. These robots could yield significant positive impacts, but they also carry the potential to cause negative impacts. Therefore, these impacts should be considered and discussed from the perspectives of not only technical solutions but also relevant safety issues, law, ethics, psychology and philosophy. We especially welcome the submission of articles with topics such as object manipulation, miniaturization, navigation and deep learning that arise in developing the makeup of modern robots as well as experimental components. Here, the question is reliability and miniaturization, especially in surgery or other invasive operations. It is also useful to have a high efficiency (low noise and error), especially in rehabilitation systems. Contributions from all fields related to actuators and robots for biomedical applications are welcome in this Special Issue, particularly those listed in the following keywords.

The proposed Special Issue will create an article collection to broaden the knowledge of the latest research and discuss new ideas for all types of actuators and robots. In particular, contributions from research into their applications in the biomedical field are welcome in this Special Issue.

Dr. Wojciech Wolanśki
Dr. Damian Gąsiorek
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Witte
Dr. Mariusz Ptak
Guest Editors

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