Steerable catheter flexible robotic system for use with endoscopes

This invention describes a tiny robotic surgical tool designed to fit inside a standard endoscope. It uses flexible tubes and wires to control a small robotic instrument at its tip, allowing a surgeon to remotely guide it to perform procedures. The claims specifically describe a version where the robotic instrument has multiple moving parts, giving it seven different ways to move.

Why it matters: Since 2018, significant advancements in flexible robotics, miniaturized actuators, and precision control algorithms have made complex, high-degree-of-freedom systems like this more feasible to develop and integrate into existing medical devices.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedMiniaturized flexible robotics, teleoperation, 7-DOF control

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