Soft Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventions: Advances and Outlook

Ka-Wai Kwok, Helge Wurdemann, Alberto Arezzo, Arianna Menciassi, Kaspar Althoefer
2022 Proceedings of the IEEE  
This article provides an in-depth overview of recent progress in soft robotics for surgery and outlines remaining challenges in the development of soft robotics technologies for in-body operation, such as materials selection, tunable stiffness, soft design paradigms, and control issues.
doi:10.1109/jproc.2022.3167931 fatcat:mjxwkfoqa5g4lbwfxrpv4apwdu