10th Anniversary of Machines—Feature Papers in Medical Robotics and Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

New robotic and sensing technologies have led to significant advances in medicine in recent decades. We invite paper submissions on the emerging research and technologies of medical robotics, medical sensing, smart co-robotics, and medical scene understanding by artificial intelligence. Particularly, the main areas of interest include biorobotics, intelligent systems, medical mechatronics, continuum and soft flexible robots and sensors, multisensory perception, learning and control in image-guided procedures, deployable motion generation, compliance modulation/sensing, cooperative and context-aware sensors/actuators in human environments, robotic surgery, robotic assistance in various human-interactive scenarios, flexible robotics, and machine artificial intelligence.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Machine learning and cognitive surgical robotics;
• Physical human–robot compliant interaction;
• Human–robot intelligent collaboration and shared control;
• Design, modeling, and control of continuum medical robotics;
• Variable stiffness robotic systems;
• Tactile and haptic feedback in robotics;
• Flexible robotics in surgery;
• Intra-operative imaging for robotic-assisted medicine;
• Augmented reality in robotic surgery;
• Multi sensorized and data-driven robotic system in medicine.

Prof. Dr. Hongliang Ren
Prof. Dr. Changsheng Li
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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