A user interface for managing a robotic drive to control one or more elongated medical devices (EMDs) supported by respective two or more cassettes of the robotic drive includes a first area to indicate a first two or more cassettes of the robotic drive which are selected to simultaneously manipulate a first two or more EMDs supported thereby in response to actuation of a first control, and a second area to indicate a second one or more cassettes of the robotic drive which are selected to simultaneously manipulate a second one or more EMDs supported thereby in response to actuation of a second control.

A system for treating a target tissue of a patient comprises a first robotic arm coupled to a treatment probe for treating the target tissue of the patient, and a second robotic arm coupled to an imaging probe for imaging the target tissue of the patient. The system further comprises one or more computing devices operably coupled with the first robotic arm and the second robotic arm, the one or more computing devices configured to execute instructions for controlling movement of one or more of the first robotic arm or the second robotic arm.

A vascular interventional surgery robot having a multi-contact plate is provided. The vascular interventional surgery robot having a multi-contact plate comprises: a translational module for allowing a surgical wire to undergo translational motion; a translational motor which provides translational driving force for allowing the surgical wire to undergo translational motion, and which is disposed at one side of the translational module; a rotational module which axially rotates the surgical wire, and which rotates the translational module and the translational motor together during the axial rotation of the surgical wire; a translational motor driver for providing the translational driving force to the translational motor; and a rotary connection module for providing a path for an electrical line electrically connecting the translational motor driver and the translational motor, wherein the rotary connection module includes connection plates which are aligned in the longitudinal direction of the surgical wire and of which the number corresponds to that of one or more electrical lines, each of one or more connection plates has a slit which is open toward the center thereof so that the surgical wire is used in the direction of the rotational axis of the translational module by means of the rotational module, has the electrical line connected to one side thereof, and has an annular strip-shaped connection ring, of which one circumferential side is open through the slit, disposed therein, and the rotary connection module can include the multi-contact plate having at least two contact points at different positions in the circumferential direction on the surface of the connection ring to electrically connect the connection ring and the translational motor driver.

A fURS haptic feedback mechanism includes a sensing unit configured to be retrofitted to an existing controlled section of a robotic-assisted retrograde intra renal surgical (RA-RIRS) system that manipulates an existing fURS shaft. The sensing unit includes a fURS tension detection mechanism configured to detect tension at the existing fURS shaft during a RA-RIRS surgical procedure, and a fURS tension interpretation mechanism configured to receive, evaluate, and quantify the detected tension. The fURS tension interpretation mechanism is further configured to visually display a quantified intensity level of the detected tension at the existing fURS shaft, and emit mechanical feedback, at an existing control handle of the existing RA-RIRS system, the quantified intensity level of the detected tension at the existing fURS shaft.

A system includes an actuator couplable to a flexible guide tube, a processor, and memory. The actuator is configured to move the flexible guide tube. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: identify at least one factor associated with insertion or removal of a tool configured to be inserted through or removed from the flexible guide tube; identify, in a first configuration of the flexible guide tube and based on the at least one factor, a section of the flexible guide tube having a bend that the tool cannot traverse; inform a user that the first configuration includes the section having the bend; and command the actuator to move the flexible guide tube to a second configuration. A distal portion of the flexible guide tube is disposed adjacent a target site in the first configuration. The second configuration does not include the bend.

The present disclosure provides methods of using a commercial grade magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to control and image motions of microbots in a subject. The method may further comprise a method of imaging to determine the location of the microbots in real time.

A method and medical system for estimating the deformation of an anatomic structure that comprises generating a first model of at least one anatomical passageway from anatomical data describing a patient anatomy and determining a shape of a device positioned within the branched anatomical passageways. The method and medical system also comprise generating a second model of the plurality of branched anatomical passageways by adjusting the first model relative to the determined shape of the device.

Methods and systems provide improved navigation through tubular networks such as lung airways by providing improved estimation of location and orientation information of a medical instrument (e.g., an endoscope) within the tubular network. Various input data such as image data and CT data, are used to model the tubular networks, and the model information is used to generate a camera pose representing a specific site location within the tubular network and/or to determine navigation information including position and orientation for the medical instrument.

Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for positioning electrodes within a body. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus for slidably moving multiple features relative to a sheath inserted into a body and positioned relative to a reference point includes a primary actuator configured to move a primary electrode, a secondary actuator configured to move a secondary electrode, and a control mechanism. The control mechanism is configured to selectively prevent movement of at least one of the primary actuator based on a position of the secondary actuator and of the secondary actuator based on a position of the primary actuator and lock positions of the primary actuator and the secondary actuator.

An apparatus and method for minimally invasive suturing is disclosed. A suturing device for minimally invasive suturing includes proximal section having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis therebetween; a suture head assembly extending from the distal end of the proximal section; a suturing needle having a pointed end and a blunt end, the suturing needle capable of rotating about an axis approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the proximal section, wherein the pointed end of the suturing needle is positioned within the suture head assembly prior to and after rotation of the suturing needle; and an actuator extending from the proximal end of the proximal section to actuate a drive mechanism having a needle driver for engaging and rotating the suturing needle.