Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Sci Robot. 2021 Nov 10;6(60):eabi8017. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abi8017.
Robotics is a forward-looking discipline. Attention is focused on identifying the next grand challenges. In an applied field such as medical robotics, however, it is important to plan the future based on a clear understanding of what the research community has recently accomplished and where this work stands with respect to clinical needs and commercialization. This Review article identifies and analyzes the eight key research themes in medical robotics over the past decade. These thematic areas were identified using search criteria that identified the most highly cited papers of the decade. Our goal for this Review article is to provide an accessible way for readers to quickly appreciate some of the most exciting accomplishments in medical robotics over the past decade; for this reason, we have focused only on a small number of seminal papers in each thematic area. We hope that this article serves to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in researchers to reduce the widening gap between research and translation.
机器人技术是一门前瞻性学科。人们关注的焦点是确定下一个重大挑战。然而,在医学机器人等应用领域,根据对研究社区最近完成的工作以及这些工作在临床需求和商业化方面的地位的清晰了解来规划未来是很重要的。本文综述确定并分析了过去十年中医学机器人的八个关键研究主题。这些主题领域是使用能够识别该十年中被引用最多的论文的搜索标准确定的。我们撰写本文的目的是为读者提供一种便捷的方式,让他们快速了解过去十年中医学机器人领域最令人兴奋的一些成就;出于这个原因,我们在每个主题领域仅关注少数几篇开创性的论文。我们希望本文能够激发研究人员的创业精神,缩小研究与转化之间日益扩大的差距。