The ARTEMIS-project R3-COP aims at providing European industry with methodologies and technologies to enable production of advanced robust and safe cognitive, reasoning autonomous and co-operative robotic systems at reduced cost. Three major topics are addressed: advanced robotic capabilities, methodologies for design and development of robotic systems, and new V&V technologies for robotic feat...

BACKGROUND Transoral robotic-assisted oncologic surgery of the head and neck offers promising functional results. Nonetheless, the efficacy of oncologic surgery remains critically dependent on obtaining negative margins. We aimed to integrate a miniaturized high-resolution fiber-optic microendoscope (HRME), which provides real-time histological assessment, with the da Vinci robotic system (Intu...

BACKGROUND We report a case of synchronous rectal and prostate cancer treated successfully with simultaneous da Vinci robotic-assisted low anterior resection of the rectum and robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy to address both cancers. CASE PRESENTATION Recently, minimally invasive surgical techniques using da Vinci robot® system (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, USA) were intr...

Building smart environments with robotic ecologies made up of distributed sensors, actuators and mobile robot devices extends the type of applications that can be considered, and reduces the complexity and cost of such solutions. While the potentials of such an approach makes robotic ecologies increasingly popular, many fundamental research questions remain open. One such question is how to mak...

The level of aquatic contamination in ports and other aquatic area is increasing unceasingly. The level of security of our sea region and other aquatic area can also be increase with the use of innovative technologies. These are the main driving force behind efforts to make more advance system for WATER WORLD. In this paper an innovative approach to robotic education is described by giving the ...

Today robotic creatures’ development has been utilized for several purposes. There have been inventions about animalliked aquatic robots, however few works were found relating to the study of full behavioral movement of aquatic animals; anguilliform, carangiform, subcarangiform and thunniform. This paper presents a study and design of a robotic fish that simulate locomotion pattern of aquatic a...

Robotic thyroidectomy has been a good option in the treatment of benign and early stage differentiated thyroid cancers, with several functional benefits. In the last few years, many surgeons have established their own robotic thyroidectomy techniques, and published many reports on the feasibility, safety and benefits of their robotic procedures. Although there are many different surgical techni...

OBJECTIVES To compare patient characteristics, operative variables, and outcomes of 24 patients who underwent robotic-assisted total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) with 44 patients who underwent conventional TLH. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 44 patients with TLH and 24 patients with robotic TLH. RESULTS Robotic TLH was associated with a shorter hospital stay (1.0 vs 1.4 days, P=...

The robotic arms of the human arm type, so-called collaborative robots, have been improved, optimized, and diversified greatly in recent years. However, most them are still equipped with mechanical grippers plier-like jaws. Equipping these anthropomorphic is currently hampered by variants on market that far too complex at inaccessible prices to be used a large scale. As an alternative familiar ...