柔軟メカニズムの医療ロボット応用

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This paper introduces the author’s recent research focus, “soft mechanism” in medical applications. In recent years, robotic technology has been actively introduced to medical devices, and a number of clinical applications have been commercialized. The soft mechanism let us have advantages on mechanical implementation, such as compactness, cleanness, and lightweight within a highly accurate motion. The paper briefly introduces the background of robotic technology employed in medical applications, and shows examples of medical robots based on the author’s “soft mechanism”.