Soft Robotics in Medicine

Donaldson, Anthony

Undergraduate Publication:
Soft Robotics in Medicine

dc.contributor.author	Donaldson, Anthony
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-25T21:42:13Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-25T21:42:13Z
dc.date.issued	5/4/21
dc.description.abstract	Robots are seeing increasing integration into the medical field, but they are often limited by their size, lack of flexibility, and other intrinsic impediments. However, an area of recent interest, soft robotics, has the potential to overcome these limitations, as soft robots are inherently flexible and compliant. These traits allow them to effectively navigate tight spaces and complex geometry, such as the interior of the human body. Additionally, the lack of distinction between structural members and actuators displayed by soft robots allows for a great deal of customization in their structure and function, with their so-termed soft actuators having a wide variety in composition and mode of activation. As such, it is conceivable that these soft robots, given enough time and research, will be able to solve many issues facing the medical field, such as targeted or sustained drug release, and improve many areas of medicine, through applications such as minimally invasive surgery	en_US
dc.description.undergraduate	undergraduate
dc.identifier.doi	10.15763/11244/330103
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/330103
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	robotics	en_US
dc.subject	medicine	en_US
dc.subject	Engineering, Biomedical.	en_US
dc.title	Soft Robotics in Medicine	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
dspace.entity.type	UndPublication
ou.group	Gallogly College of Engineering	en_US