Overview of the soft endoscopic system (IMAGE)

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Overview of the soft endoscopic system

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This system is equipped with a hydraulic-driven 3 DOF-soft cutting arm and a 3-jaw teleoperated soft grasper system for cutting and grasping lesions inside the colon, respectively. The soft manipulator (i.e., soft robotic arm) and grasper (i.e., end-effector) are operated by an electricity-free delta structure master device.

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Kefan Zhu, The University of New South Wales.

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