A Flexible Transoral Robot Towards COVID-19 Swab Sampling

There are high risks of infection for surgeons during the face-to-face COVID-19 swab sampling due to the novel coronavirus’s infectivity. To address this issue, we propose a flexible transoral robot with a teleoperated configuration for swab sampling. The robot comprises a flexible manipulator, an e...

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Main Authors: Changsheng Li, Xiaoyi Gu, Xiao Xiao, Chwee Ming Lim, Xingguang Duan, Hongliang Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.612167/full