A Novel Robotic Meshworm With Segment-Bending Anchoring for Colonoscopy
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 87184824
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1109/LRA.2017.2678540
- Title of journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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- First page
- 1718
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2377-3766
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Conventional colonoscopy can be painful for patients, carrying the risk of damaging the bowel. To address this, this research proposes a novel soft endoscope which can self-propel in torturous and folded colon with much gentler force, owning to its unique anchoring mechanism, to significantly reduce the discomfort of patients and reduce training time of clinicians. This technology led to a patent (WO2018154326A1) and the partnership with IBM human centric center (Dr Marc Yvon, marc.yvon@fr.ibm.com) (https://www.ibm.com/marketing/hci/care-studies/colonoscopy-study.html) and a £1.2M EPSRC grant under the Global Research Challenge Fund, aiming to solve the huge challenge of colonoscopy screening faced in China (EP/R013977/1).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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