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Project reference

2024_P1_Ourselin_Bergeles

Start date

June or October 2025
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Understanding the limits of continuum robots: data-driven insights from medical pracitioners

Continuum robots are becoming more and more relevant in the medical domain and several concepts and products are already available in the market. Such robots have been so diffused in the research domain to the point that clinical applicability is being investigated in procedures involving substitution of catheter-based end-effectors with continuum robots. However, questions remain on the benefits and drawbacks of substituting some manual procedures through robot assisted ones. Specifically, there is a further need to investigate the impact of forces and torques applied by continuum robots to the anatomy and their relations to manual procedures. This project focuses on investigating what forces are applied by expert clinicians on manual catheter-based procedures to understand how future continuum robots should be designed to incorporate empirical data from such investigations.