Abstract
In recent years, robotic surgery has been widely performed in clinical practice, therefore the surgeons are becoming more and more familiarized with surgical robotic tools. Although the strong needs at clinical side, laparoscopy, one of the most performed minimally invasive surgery, is not widely performed using robotic system. To develop a further compact, lightweight, versatile surgical robotic system for laparoscopy, we designed novel robotic forceps developed based on Soft Robotics within the diameter of 6 mm. In this paper, we present concept, mechanical design and preliminary assessment of the developed prototype.
