Design, fabrication, and testing of a new soft-pouch robot with 6 degrees of freedom to expand the reach of open and endonasal skull base approaches
This robot offers a promising solution for safely maneuvering through narrow surgical windows encountered during skull base approaches. The multiple bending points of the robot, combined with its passive deformation capacity, allow it to turn around immovable structures, expanding the reach of surgical openings. The cost-effectiveness, rapid production, and scalability of the robot represent additional advantages.
Authors
- Ezequiel Goldschmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5393-4438)
- Chen Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8637-9414)
- Daniel Quintana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-0004)
- Shijie Xin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-8794)
- Wesley Shoap
- Yifan You (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-7632)
- Ronald S. Fearing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-5379)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Neurological Surgery (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurosurgical FOCUS
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3171/2024.9.focus24540
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.72