Frontiers in Robotics and AI | Biomedical Robotics

Editorial

Published on 08 Aug 2025

Editorial: Advancing soft, tactile, and haptic technologies: recent developments for healthcare applications

in Biomedical Robotics

Antonia Tzemanaki
Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
Matteo Cianchetti
Jelizaveta Konstantinova

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1658613

3,104 views

Perspective

Published on 03 Jul 2025

Rehabilitation robotics and allied digital technologies: opportunities, barriers and solutions for improving their clinical implementation. A position paper from the Fit for Medical Robotics Initiative

in Biomedical Robotics

Irene Giovanna Aprile
Silvana Quaglini
Giuseppe Turchetti
Leandro Pecchia
Giovanni Comandè
Furio Gramatica
Emanuele Gruppioni
Giuseppina Sgandurra
Christian Cipriani
Fit4Mission1 group

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1531067

5,823 views
4 citations

Original Research

Published on 23 Jun 2025

Translating human information into robot tasks: action sequence recognition and robot control based on human motions

in Biomedical Robotics

Taichi Obinata
Kazutomo Baba
Akira Uehara
Hiroaki Kawamoto
Yoshiyuki Sankai

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1462833

2,285 views

Review

Published on 04 Jun 2025

Role of haptic feedback technologies and novel engineering developments for surgical training and robot-assisted surgery

in Biomedical Robotics

Imán Laga Boul-Atarass
Mercedes Rubio Manzanares Dorado
Andrés Padillo-Eguía
Jesús Racero-Moreno
Ignacio Eguía-Salinas
Sheila Pereira-Arenas
Rosa María Jiménez-Rodríguez
Javier Padillo-Ruiz

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1567955

4,511 views
4 citations

Original Research

Published on 21 May 2025

Learning to suppress tremors: a deep reinforcement learning-enabled soft exoskeleton for Parkinson’s patients

in Biomedical Robotics

Tamás Endrei
Sándor Földi
Ádám Makk
György Cserey

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1537470

4,637 views

Editorial

Published on 15 May 2025

Editorial: Advancements in AI-driven multimodal interfaces for robot-aided rehabilitation

in Biomedical Robotics

Christian Tamantini
Kevin Patrice Langlois
David Rodriguez Cianca
Loredana Zollo

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1605418

3,343 views

Editorial

Published on 14 May 2025

Editorial: Advances in modern intelligent surgery: from computer-aided diagnosis to medical robotics

in Biomedical Robotics

Zhe Min
Rui Song
Changsheng Li
Jax Luo

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1620551

2,494 views
7 citations

Original Research

Published on 06 May 2025

Enhancing needle puncture detection using high-pass filtering and diffuse reflectance

in Biomedical Robotics

Rachael L’Orsa
Anupam Bisht
Linhui Yu
Kartikeya Murari
Garnette R. Sutherland
David T. Westwick
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1429327

2,526 views

Review

Published on 02 May 2025

Exoskeletons for the rehabilitation of temporomandibular disorders: a comprehensive review

in Biomedical Robotics

Paul-Otto Müller
Robert Sader
Oskar von Stryk

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1492275

3,037 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 16 Apr 2025

Evaluation of angulation and distance deviation for robot-guided laser osteotomy – a follow-up study on digital high-tech procedures

in Biomedical Robotics

Bilal Msallem
Lara Veronesi
Florian Samuel Halbeisen
Michel Beyer
Adrian Dragu
Florian Markus Thieringer

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1559483

2,209 views
1 citation

Brief Research Report

Published on 31 Mar 2025

Ethical considerations in the use of social robots for supporting mental health and wellbeing in older adults in long-term care

in Biomedical Robotics

Lillian Hung
Yong Zhao
Hadil Alfares
Parsa Shafiekhani

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1560214

14,075 views
8 citations

Original Research

Published on 25 Mar 2025

Stiffness evaluation of continuum robots based on the energy method and castigliano’s second theorem

in Biomedical Robotics

Mengxue Yang
Zhicheng An
Zechen Lin
Yuhang Wang
Tongtao Pang
Fuxin Du

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1523619

2,591 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 24 Mar 2025

Design and evaluation of new user control devices for improved ergonomics in flexible robotic endoscopy

in Biomedical Robotics

Leander Heisterberg
Luigi Manfredi
Dörte Wichmann
Thomas Maier
Peter P. Pott

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1559574

2,878 views

Editorial

Published on 24 Mar 2025

Editorial: Smart endorobots for endoluminal procedures: design, ethics and future trends

in Biomedical Robotics

Luigi Manfredi
Juan A. Sánchez-Margallo
Helge Arne Wurdemann
Andreas Melzer

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1581829

2,373 views

Original Research

Published on 19 Mar 2025

A flexible transoral swab sampling robot system with visual-tactile fusion approach

in Biomedical Robotics

Jiaxiang Dong
Peng Li
Quanquan Liu
Qi Liu
Chunbao Wang
Xuezhi Zhao
Xiping Hu

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1520374

2,158 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 18 Mar 2025

Development of human-collaborative robots to perform daily tasks based on multimodal vital information with cybernics space

in Biomedical Robotics

Akira Uehara
Hiroaki Kawamoto
Yoshiyuki Sankai

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1462243

3,445 views

Original Research

Published on 05 Feb 2025

Autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning system: a key to enhancing image analysis reproducibility and observer consistency in ultrasound imaging

in Biomedical Robotics

Xin-Xin Lin
Ming-De Li
Si-Min Ruan
Wei-Ping Ke
Hao-Ruo Zhang
Hui Huang
Shao-Hong Wu
Mei-Qing Cheng
Wen-Juan Tong
Hang-Tong Hu

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1527686

8,266 views
11 citations

Editorial

Published on 28 Jan 2025

Editorial: Latest trends in bio-inspired medical robotics: structural design, manufacturing, sensing, actuation and control

in Biomedical Robotics

Yilun Sun
Houde Dai
Shuang Song
Angela Faragasso
Sara-Adela Abad Guaman

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2025.1544097

4,511 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 17 Dec 2024

Launching Stealth AutoGuideTM robot for stereotactic biopsy procedures in a neurosurgical centre: learning curve and workflow optimization

in Biomedical Robotics

Marcus Barth
Etienne Holl
Fabian Flaschka
Sila Karakaya
Vitus Körbler
Melanie Pichlsberger
Stefan Wolfsberger
Alexander Micko

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2024.1437568

3,135 views
1 citation

Review

Published on 28 Nov 2024

Enhancing interpretability and accuracy of AI models in healthcare: a comprehensive review on challenges and future directions

in Biomedical Robotics

Mohammad Ennab
Hamid Mcheick

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2024.1444763

17,012 views
99 citations

Original Research

Published on 27 Nov 2024

Development of an upper limb passive exosuit for the 2023 ASTM Exo Games

in Biomedical Robotics

Stijn Kindt
Elias Thiery
Stijn Hamelryckx
Adrien Deraes
Tom Verstraten

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2024.1485177

2,624 views

Original Research

Published on 21 Nov 2024

Design of an intelligent wearable device for real-time cattle health monitoring

in Biomedical Robotics

Zhenhua Yu
Yalou Han
Lukas Cha
Shihong Chen
Zeyu Wang
Yang Zhang

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2024.1441960

11,930 views
18 citations

Original Research

Published on 18 Nov 2024

On the feasibility of a robotic probe manipulator for echocardiography in the prone position

in Biomedical Robotics

Muhammad Wildan Gifari
Tomoko Machino-Ohtsuka
Takeshi Machino
Modar Hassan
Kenji Suzuki

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2024.1474077

3,732 views
5 citations

Original Research

Published on 11 Nov 2024

Abraded optical fibre-based dynamic range force sensor for tissue palpation

in Biomedical Robotics

Abu Bakar Dawood
Vamsi Krishna Chavali
Thomas Mack
Zhenyu Zhang
Hareesh Godaba
Martin Angelmahr
Kaspar Althoefer

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

doi 10.3389/frobt.2024.1489884

2,514 views
1 citation

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Editorial: Advancing soft, tactile, and haptic technologies: recent developments for healthcare applications

Rehabilitation robotics and allied digital technologies: opportunities, barriers and solutions for improving their clinical implementation. A position paper from the Fit for Medical Robotics Initiative

Translating human information into robot tasks: action sequence recognition and robot control based on human motions

Role of haptic feedback technologies and novel engineering developments for surgical training and robot-assisted surgery

Learning to suppress tremors: a deep reinforcement learning-enabled soft exoskeleton for Parkinson’s patients

Editorial: Advancements in AI-driven multimodal interfaces for robot-aided rehabilitation

Editorial: Advances in modern intelligent surgery: from computer-aided diagnosis to medical robotics

Enhancing needle puncture detection using high-pass filtering and diffuse reflectance

Exoskeletons for the rehabilitation of temporomandibular disorders: a comprehensive review

Evaluation of angulation and distance deviation for robot-guided laser osteotomy – a follow-up study on digital high-tech procedures

Ethical considerations in the use of social robots for supporting mental health and wellbeing in older adults in long-term care

Stiffness evaluation of continuum robots based on the energy method and castigliano’s second theorem

Design and evaluation of new user control devices for improved ergonomics in flexible robotic endoscopy

Editorial: Smart endorobots for endoluminal procedures: design, ethics and future trends

A flexible transoral swab sampling robot system with visual-tactile fusion approach

Development of human-collaborative robots to perform daily tasks based on multimodal vital information with cybernics space

Autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning system: a key to enhancing image analysis reproducibility and observer consistency in ultrasound imaging

Editorial: Latest trends in bio-inspired medical robotics: structural design, manufacturing, sensing, actuation and control

Launching Stealth AutoGuideTM robot for stereotactic biopsy procedures in a neurosurgical centre: learning curve and workflow optimization

Enhancing interpretability and accuracy of AI models in healthcare: a comprehensive review on challenges and future directions

Development of an upper limb passive exosuit for the 2023 ASTM Exo Games

Design of an intelligent wearable device for real-time cattle health monitoring

On the feasibility of a robotic probe manipulator for echocardiography in the prone position

Abraded optical fibre-based dynamic range force sensor for tissue palpation