Aims and Scope

Over the last years, medical robots have experienced a significant development from basic research systems to robust, easy to use medical devices on the market. Nowadays, as innovations in the field rapidly accelerate, there has been an unparalleled rise in applications and systems. The newest generation of medical robots not only functions as an agile extension of the human eyes and hands, but also becomes a skillful and smart partner to their human counterpart.

This special issue in Robotica is targeting authors who wish to contribute to knowledge dissemination in medical robotics, robot-assisted procedures, smart instrumented tools for surgery, haptic feedback in medical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, interventional therapy, medical imaging for robotic interventions, surgical simulation, soft-tissue modelling, telesurgery, and related areas.

We invite submission of high quality papers as related to recent advances in medical robotics.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Design of medical devices
• Kinematics and dynamics for medical robotics
• Exoskeletons and prostheses
• Humanoid & service robots
• Assistive robots and elderly assistance
• Surgical robots
• Human-robot interfaces
• Haptic devices
• Medical treatments using robotics and automation

Special Issue Editors

Georg Rauter, PhD (Chair MESROB conference)
Associate Professor, University of Basel, Switzerland
Email: georg.rauter@unibas.ch

Med Amine Laribi, PhD (Chair MEDER conference)
Associate Professor, Institut PPRIME, Département Génie Mécanique et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS
University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Email: med.amine.laribi@univ-poitiers.fr

Robert Riener, PhD (Initiator of the CYBATHLON)
Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Email: robert.riener@hest.ethz.ch

Deadline Date: 15 November 2021. 

Please submit via manuscript central and select the “Advances in Medical Robotics” special issue.