A Continuum Manipulator for Open-Source Surgical Robotics Research (ENDO) - T-MRB 2021

A.B. Clark, V. Mathivannan, N. Rojas, "A Continuum Manipulator for Open-Source Surgical Robotics Research and Shared Development," IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 277 - 280, 2021
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This video shows ENDO, an open-source 3-segment continuum robot manipulator with control and actuation mechanism, whose focus is on simplicity, affordability, and accessibility. This robotic system is fabricated from low cost off-the-shelf components and rapid prototyping methods, and its information for implementation (and that of future iterations), including CAD files and source code, is available to the public on the Open Source Medical Robots initiative's repository on GitHub (https://github.com/OpenSourceMedicalR..., with the control library also available directly from Arduino.