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Intracorporeal Robotics: From Milliscale to Nanoscale

By Etienne Dombre , Michael Gauthier , Nicolas Andreff

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-84821-371-5, 1848213719
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8613523 bytes)
Series
Iste
Edition
1
Pages
208\200
Time added
2016-01-24 03:00:00

Description

A promising long-term evolution of surgery relies on intracorporeal microrobotics. This book reviews the physical and methodological principles, and the scientific challenges to be tackled to design and control such robots. Three orders of magnitude will be considered, justified by the class of problems encountered and solutions implemented to manipulate objects and reach targets within the body: millimetric, sub-millimetric in the 10- 100 micrometer range, then in the 1-10 micrometer range. The most prominent devices and prototypes of the state of the art will be described to illustrate the benefit that can be expected for surgeons and patients. Future developments nanorobotics will also be discussed.

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