Robotics and Haptics: Haptic Feedback for Medical Robots

Dear Colleagues,

Touch is one of the most basic and immediate senses we possess. Haptic feedback allows us to make instinctive and subconscious decisions. Many robotic fields related to medical applications can benefit from haptics. Haptic sensing and feedback is a useful tool to solve the problem of limited sense of touch in robot-assisted surgery. With the help of haptic feedback, medical simulators, including robotic training phantoms, enable advanced physical examination training and surgical training before using human patients. Adding haptic feedback to prosthetics can enhance the functions of prosthetics and help people who use prosthetics to expend less mental effort while carrying out tasks. Haptic feedback can also provide more sensation cues during robot-assisted rehabilitation training, subsequently leading to improved motor relearning of post-stroke patients. This Special Issue intends to include studies related to haptic sensing and feedback for medical robots such as medical simulators, rehabilitation robots, prosthetics, and robotics for surgery. 

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

Methods of haptic/tactile sensing for medical robots;
Novel haptic/tactile sensors for medical robots;
Developments of haptic/tactile feedback devices for medical robots;
Methods of haptic/tactile feedback for medical robots;
Clinical studies on haptic-related medical robots.

Dr. Min Li
Dr. Wei Yao
Dr. Shan Luo
Guest Editors

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