The robotic nurse plays an essential role in a successful robotic surgery. As part of the robotic surgical team, the robotic nurse must demonstrate a high level of professional knowledge, and be an expert in robotic technology and dealing with robotic malfunctions. Each one of the robotic nursing team "nurse coordinator, scrub-nurse and circulating-nurse" has a certain job description to ensure...

Purpose – To present an open architecture for real-time sensory feedback control of a dual-arm industrial robotic cell. The setup is composed of two industrial robot manipulators equipped with force/torque sensors and pneumatic grippers, a vision system and a belt conveyor. Design/methodology/approach – The original industrial robot controllers have been replaced by a single PC with software ru...

BACKGROUND This is a single-institution prospective study in a tertiary care center to evaluate feasibility, completeness of resection, and functional outcomes for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) treated primarily with transoral robotic-assisted resection. METHODS Thirty-five patients with T1 and T2 squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx were included. They underwent transoral ...

Abstract. In a no-wait robotic flow-shop, the parts are transferred from a machine to another one by a robot and the time a part can remain on a machine is fixed. The objective is to maximize the throughput rate of the cell, i.e. to find optimal cyclic robot moves. In this paper, we consider identical parts in the balanced case (all processing times are equal). We present a conjecture which giv...

We demonstrate the use of high-throughput biodosimetry platforms based on commercial high-throughput/high-content screening robotic systems. The cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) assay, using only 20 μl whole blood from a fingerstick, was implemented on a PerkinElmer cell::explorer and General Electric IN Cell Analyzer 2000. On average 500 binucleated cells per sample were detected by our F...

Objectives The aim of this multicenter retrospective cohort study was to compare efficacy and subsequent postoperative treatment between transoral robotic surgery (TORS) any non-robotic in Japanese patients with early oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), hypopharyngeal SCC (HPSCC), or supraglottic (SGSCC). Materials methods Clinical information surgical outcomes were compared early-st...

Automatic cell recognition in bright field microscopy is an inherently difficult task due to the immense variability of cell appearance. Yet, it is essential for a highthroughput robotic system. In this paper, we employed a pixel patch decomposition method to detect cultured cells in bright field images. To increase the classification accuracy, we proposed a novel Fisher's Linear Discriminant (...

In this paper a novel sensory-motor neural controller applied to robotic systems for reaching and tracking targets is proposed. It is based on how the human system projects the sensorial stimulus over the motor joints, sending motor commands to each articulation and avoiding, in most phases of the movement, the feedback of the visual information. In this way, the proposed neural architecture au...

Primary urethral carcinoma is extremely rare and is marked by a variety of clinical symptoms. Primary carcinoma of a urethral diverticulum is still rarer and clear cell adenocarcinoma of the urethra is particularly uncommon (Swartz et al., 2006). Such infrequency has led to inadequate management guidance in the literature for a disease that is often late in presentation and carries substantial ...