Benjamin T Ostrander, Daniel Massillon, Leo Meller, Zih-Yun Chiu, Michael Yip, Ryan K Orosco
BACKGROUND: Robotic technology is an important tool in surgical innovation, with robots increasingly being used in the clinical setting. Robots can be used to enhance accuracy, perform remote actions, or to automate tasks. One such surgical task is suturing, a repetitive, fundamental component of surgery that can be tedious and time consuming. Suturing is a promising automation target because of its ubiquity, repetitive nature, and defined constraints. This systematic review examines research to date on autonomous suturing...
March 29, 2024: Surgical Endoscopy