HYPOTHESIS Robotic-assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) for the removal of thyroid glands is feasible by surgeons in the United States. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Academic research. Patient A 53-year-old woman. INTERVENTION Total thyroidectomy via the transaxillary approach. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Successful completion thyroidectomy using bilateral RATS. RESULTS Right thyroid lobectom...

Background Tele-mentoring facilitates the transfer of surgical knowledge. The objective this work is to develop a tele-mentoring framework that enables specialist surgeon mentor an operating by transferring information in form instruments' motion required during minimally invasive surgery. Method A developed video stream field, poses scope and port placement from room remote location. From loca...

Endowing tele-manipulation frameworks with the capability to accommodate a variety of robotic hands is key to achieving high performances through permitting to flexibly interchange the end-effector according to the task considered. This requires the development of control policies that not only cope with asymmetric master-slave systems but also whose high-level components are designed in a unif...

This work presents the design of a bilateral teleoperation system for a robotic arm. It proposes a new prototype communication protocol with Websockets for the communication and Json for data structuration on a cloud computing environment with OpenStack and Openshift Origin. The human operator receives visual and force feedback from the remote site, and it sends position commands to the slave. ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of using a simple procedure, a bilateral tubal ligation, as a transition procedure when adopting robotic laparoscopy for gynecologic surgery. METHOD To obtain robotic credentialing and gain experience with the robotic system, the surgeons first went through robotic training, then 4 women desiring permanent sterilization had robotically assisted laparosc...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication devices communicate and exchange information with each other in an independent manner to perform necessary tasks. The machine communicates another over a wireless network. Wireless opens up the environment huge vulnerabilities, making it very easy for hackers gain access sensitive carry out malicious actions. This paper proposes M2M system through internet...

ROBOTIC SURGERY AND TELE-SURGERY: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND DESCRIPTION OF A NOVEL CONCEPT (Abstract): One of the most important advances in surgical technology in the last two decades of the twentieth century is represented by the introduction of the laparoscopic technique. Using the laparoscopic approach the patient is operated through keyhole incisions as opposed to long, traumatic incisions over...

In this paper, the problem of control and stabilization of a bilateral tele-surgery roboticsystem in interaction with an active soft tissue is considered. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, theprevious works did not consider a realistic model for a moving soft tissue like heart tissue in beating heartsurgery. Here, a new model is proposed to indicate significant characteristics of a moving ...