Advanced Technologies in Medical and Surgical Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

Surgical robotics is the most cutting-edge medical technology of modern times. It offers many benefits to patients, including shorter hospitalization times, reduced pain, faster recovery, smaller incisions, etc. Surgical robots drive clinical technology innovation in many aspects, from preoperative planning to intraoperative execution to postoperative rehabilitation. At present, the advent of the smart medical era is introducing new technologies, such as soft/flexible robotics, intelligent sensing and control, haptics, artificial intelligence, and AR/VR, into the field. Nevertheless, it may bring some technical challenges for the deep integration of medical and robotics technologies.

This Special Issue aims to invite and collate high-quality original research and review articles on the latest advances in the theory, methods, and applications of medical and surgical robotics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Medical/surgical robot systems.
• Soft/continuum robots.
• Sensing technologies for surgical robots.
• Control technologies for surgical robots.
• Haptics for surgical robots.
• AR/VR for surgical robots.
• Autonomous robotic surgery technologies.
• Computer vision and artificial intelligence for surgical robots.
• Preoperative planning for robotic surgery.
• Intraoperative tracking and navigation.
• Applications of surgical robots.

Dr. Bai Chen
Dr. Feng Ju
Dr. Bo Lu
Dr. Fuxin Du
Guest Editors

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