Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots

Robotic technology helps the medical field realize new surgical procedures and medical treatments that are previously unachievable. Innovative technology like medical robotics have already and will further improve the performance of minimally invasive interventions, allowing more accessible surgical treatments. With the advancement of robotic technologies across the scales, novel robotic-assisted surgical procedures and therapeutic interventions are revolutionizing medical diagnosis and treatment solutions, which enable and enhance visualization, accessibility, and accuracy for surgeons to carry out minimally invasive interventions, benefiting medical doctors and patients worldwide. Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside serves as a specialized and dedicated reference on tethered miniature robots and their related collective behaviors. This book presents the latest achievements in the research of miniature robotics and introduces a variety of miniature robots on the milli-/micro/nano-scale, with tethered/untethered and individual/swarm designs, describing the various types, and analyzing the underlying principles per class. Clinicians, academicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, engineers, and scientists working in the field of medical miniature robots and related biomedical applications.

• Provides authoritative coverage of the fundamental research and medical applications of miniature robotics, from mm-scale to nm-scale and with tethered/untethered and individual/swarm designs
• Focuses on the state-of-the-art research and up-to-date results of medical miniature robots
• Describes the key medical applications of miniature robots and provide insights into the ongoing research and speculate on the future directions of medical miniature robots