Part I: Visions and Overviews -- Future Directions in Robotic Surgery -- Military Robotic Combat Casualty Extraction and Care -- Telemedicine for the Battlefield: Present and Future Technologies -- Overcoming Barriers to Wider Adoption of Mobile Telerobotic Surgery: Engineering, Clinical and Business Challenges -- Part II: Systems -- Accurate Positioning for Intervention on the Beating Heart using a Crawling Robot -- Miniature In Vivo Robots for NOTES -- A Compact, Simple, and Robust Teleoperated Robotic Surgery System -- Raven - Optimization of a Surgical Robot and Experiments in Telesurgery -- The da Vinci Surgical System -- RIO: Robotic-Arm Interactive Orthopedic System MAKOplasty – User Interactive Haptic Orthopedic Robotics -- Robotic Surgery: Enabling Technology. Enabling Medical Robotics for the Next Generation of Minimally Invasive Procedures: Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery with Single Port Access -- Wireless Intraocular Microrobots: Opportunities and Challenges -- Single and Multiple Robotic Capsules for Endoluminal Diagnosis and Surgery -- Visual Guidance of an Active Handheld Microsurgical Tool -- Swimming Micro Robots for Medical Applications -- Flagellated Bacterial Nanorobots for Medical Interventions in the Human Body -- Part III: Engineering Developments -- Force Feedback and Sensory Substitution for Robot-Assisted Surgery -- Tactile Feedback in Surgical Robotics -- Robotic Techniques for Minimally Invasive Tumor Localization -- Motion Prediction and 3D Tracking of the Beating Heart.-Towards the Development of a Robotic System for Beating Heart Surgery -- Robotic Needle Steering: Design, Modeling, Planning, and Image Guidance -- Macro and Micro Soft-tissue Biomechanics and Tissue Damage -- Objective Assessment of Surgical Skills -- Part IV: Clinical Applications / Overviews -- Telesurgery - Translation Technology to Clinical Practice -- History of Robots in Orthopedics -- Robotic-Assisted Urologic Applications -- Applications of Surgical Robotics in Cardiac Surgery -- Robotics in Neurosurgery -- Applications of Surgical Robotics in Pediatric Surgery.

Surgical robotics is a rapidly evolving field. With roots in academic research, surgical robotic systems are now clinically used across a wide spectrum of surgical procedures. Surgical Robotics: Systems Applications and Visions provides a comprehensive view of the field both from the research and clinical perspectives. This volume takes a look at surgical robotics from four different perspectives, addressing vision, systems, engineering development and clinical applications of these technologies. The book also: -Discusses specific surgical applications of robotics that have already been deployed in operating rooms -Covers specific engineering breakthroughs that have occurred in surgical robotics -Details surgical robotic applications in specific disciplines of surgery including orthopedics, urology, cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, pediatric surgery and general surgery Surgical Robotics: Systems Applications and Visions is an ideal volume for researchers and engineers working in biomedical engineering.