A Historical Review of Medical Robotic Platforms

Ginoya, Tirth; Maddahi, Yaser; Zareinia, Kourosh

doi:10.1155/2021/6640031

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“…For instance, the teleoperated humanoid robots for surgery, such as the well‐known Da Vinci system (Intuitive Surgical, USA), help surgeries by merely providing doctors with real‐time visual images and giving haptic feedback through vibrations. [ 183 ] This leads to low cooperation efficiency due to the unsatisfied tracking speed and the high raw‐data redundancy. Therefore, stronger data parsing capabilities (such as object recognition, path programming, and human intention analysis) are highly required for future robots to understand and adapt to any changes in the collaboration tasks.…”

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Tactile and Vision Perception for Intelligent Humanoids

Gao

Dai

Nathan

2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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Touch and vision perception are two important functions humans use to interact with the real world. To mimic human‐like abilities, tactile‐ and visual‐sensing‐based intelligent humanoids have emerged and are going through a fast phase of development. Studies have demonstrated that the combination of tactile and visual information not only enables humanoids to better learn the environment, but also allows them to have pseudocognitive ability. Being a new and rapidly developing field of research, a significant growth in articles reporting different aspects of sensing and related machine learning is being witnessed. To help readers comprehensively understand the fundamentals and insights, and the current state of the art, this review is compiled to explain the working mechanisms of tactile and visual sensing, introduce the application of intelligent humanoids in diverse scenarios, discuss current challenges, and predict future trends.

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Tactile and Vision Perception for Intelligent Humanoids

Gao

Dai

Nathan

2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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“…In 2001, the world’s first inter-Atlantic telesurgery was successfully performed [ 2 ] and a telesurgery system was established in Canada [ 3 ]. However, the social implementation of telesurgery was deferred for a long time due to the following: the communication delay time was too long for clinical application with communication lines at the time [ 4 , 5 ], secure dedicated lines were too expensive for most clinical use [ 6 ], communication security could not be ensured over internet lines [ 7 ], so for various reasons, there was minimal development of new robots for telesurgery [ 8 ].…”

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“…These days, issues of communication delay and security, which were key barriers to remote surgery, are being resolved by the development of high-speed, large-capacity communication networks and advances in information processing technology. In addition, the patent for the surgical robot system of the preceding generation has expired, which has led to the development of new types of surgical robots and the resumption of social demonstration studies of remote surgery [ 8 – 11 ]. Our group conducted a telesurgery experiment in which two hospitals located 150 km apart were connected by a commercial line.…”

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Impact of the suboptimal communication network environment on telerobotic surgery performance and surgeon fatigue

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Background Remote surgery social implementation necessitates achieving low latency and highly reliable video/operation signal transmission over economical commercial networks. However, with commercial lines, communication bandwidth often fluctuates with network congestion and interference from narrowband lines acting as bottlenecks. Therefore, verifying the effects on surgical performance and surgeon fatigue when communication lines dip below required bandwidths are important. Objectives To clarify the communication bandwidth environment effects on image transmission and operability when bandwidth is lower than surgical robot requirements, and to determine surgeon fatigue levels in suboptimal environments. Methods Employing a newly developed surgical robot, a commercial IP-VPN line connected two hospitals 150 km apart. Thirteen surgical residents remotely performed a defined suturing procedure at 1-Gbps to 3-Mbps bandwidths. Communication delay, packet loss, time-to-task completion, forceps-movement distance, video degradation, and robot operability were evaluated before and after bandwidth changes. The Piper Fatigue Score-12 (PFS-12) was used to measure fatigue associated with surgeon performance. Results Roundtrip communication time for both 1-Gbps and 3-Mbps lines averaged 4 ms. Video transmission delay from camera to monitor was comparable, at 92 ms. Surgical robot signal transmission rate averaged 5.2 Mbps, so changing to 1-Gbps-3-Mbps lines resulted in significant packet loss. Surgeons perceived significant roughness, image distortion, diplopia, and degradation of 3D images (p = 0.009), but not changes in delay time or maneuverability. All surgeons could complete tasks, but objective measurement of task-completion time and forceps-travel distance were significantly prolonged (p = 0.013, p = 0,041). Additionally, PFS-12 showed post-procedure fatigue increase at both 1-Gbps and 3-Mbps. Fatigue increase was significant at 3-Mbps (p = 0.041). Conclusions In remote surgery environments with less than the optimal bandwidth, even when delay time and operability are equivalent, reduced surgical performance occurs from video degradation from packet loss. This may cause increased surgeon fatigue.

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“…In fact, in terms of employing robots in health sciences, the field of surgery has been the most active during the last three decades (Ginoya et al, 2021 ; Leal Ghezzi & Campos Corleta, 2016 ; Peters et al, 2018 ). However, robots have been increasingly used in the province of health sciences to perform a wide number of health related tasks (Kyrarini et al, 2021 ).…”

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More than surgical tools: a systematic review of robots as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences

Marcos-Pablos

García‐Peñalvo

2022

Adv in Health Sci Educ

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Within the field of robots in medical education, most of the work done during the last years has focused on surgeon training in robotic surgery, practicing surgery procedures through simulators. Apart from surgical education, robots have also been widely employed in assistive and rehabilitation procedures, where education has traditionally focused in the patient. Therefore, there has been extensive review bibliography in the field of medical robotics focused on surgical and rehabilitation and assistive robots, but there is a lack of survey papers that explore the potential of robotics in the education of healthcare students and professionals beyond their training in the use of the robotic system. The scope of the current review are works in which robots are used as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences, investigating the enablers and barriers that affect the use of robots as learning facilitators. Systematic literature searches were conducted in WOS and Scopus, yielding a total of 3812 candidate papers. After removing duplicates, inclusion criteria were defined and applied, resulting in 171 papers. An in-depth quality assessment was then performed leading to 26 papers for qualitative synthesis. Results show that robots in health sciences education are still developed with a roboticist mindset, without clearly incorporating aspects of the teaching/learning process. However, they have proven potential to be used in health sciences as they allow to parameterize procedures, autonomously guide learners to achieve greater engagement, or enable collective learning including patients and instructors "in the loop". Although there exist documented added-value benefits, further research and efforts needs to be done to foster the inclusion of robots as didactic tools in the curricula of health sciences professionals. On the one hand, by analyzing how robotic technology should be developed to become more flexible and usable to support both teaching and learning processes in health sciences education, as final users are not necessarily well-versed in how to use it. On the other, there continues to be a need to develop effective and standard robotic enhanced learning evaluation tools, as well good quality studies that describe effective evaluation of robotic enhanced education for professionals in health sciences. As happens with other technologies when applied to the health sciences field, studies often fail to provide sufficient detail to support transferability or direct future robotic health care education programs.

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A Historical Review of Medical Robotic Platforms

Cited by 31 publications

References 49 publications

Tactile and Vision Perception for Intelligent Humanoids

Tactile and Vision Perception for Intelligent Humanoids

Impact of the suboptimal communication network environment on telerobotic surgery performance and surgeon fatigue

More than surgical tools: a systematic review of robots as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences

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