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Accelerating Surgical
Robotics Research
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By Claudia D'Ettorre, Andrea Mariani, Agostino Stilli,
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Pietro Valdastri, Anton Deguet,
Peter Kazanzides, Russell H. Taylor, Gregory S. Fischer,
Simon P. DiMaio, Arianna Menciassi, and Danail Stoyanov
A Review of 10 Years
With the da Vinci
Research Kit
R
obotic-assisted surgery is now well established in
clinical practice and has become the gold-standard
clinical treatment option for several clinical
indications. The field of robotic-assisted surgery is
expected to grow substantially in the next decade,
with a range of new robotic devices emerging to address
unmet clinical needs across different specialties. A vibrant
surgical robotics research community is pivotal for
conceptualizing such new systems as well as for developing
and training the engineers and scientists to translate them
into practice. The da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK), an
academic and industry collaborative effort to repurpose
decommissioned da Vinci surgical systems [Intuitive Surgical
Inc. (ISI), California, USA] as a research platform for surgical
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robotics research, has been a key initiative for addressing a
barrier to entry for new research groups in surgical robotics.
In this article, we present an extensive review of the
publications that have been facilitated by the dVRK over the
past decade. We classify research efforts into different
categories and outline some of the major challenges and
needs for the robotics community to maintain and build
upon this initiative.
Introduction
Robotics is at the heart of modern health-care engineering.
Robotic-assisted surgery, in particular, has been one of the
most significant technological additions to surgical capabilities
over the past two decades [1]. With the introduction of laparoscopic
or minimally invasive surgery (MIS) as an alternative to
traditional open surgery, the decoupling of the surgeon's direct
access to the internal anatomy generates the need to improve
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