Design of Soft Fingers for a Surgical Robotic Hand with Hybrid Structure

Abstract

Utilization of robot manipulators started to be preferred in many medical applications due to the rapid technological developments occurred in the last decade. Thanks to the studies and applications in the related literature, leaving the usage of classical industrial robot manipulator structures, new designs with respect to the application constraints have been focused on. In light of this, current study focuses on the design of soft fingers that will allow the usage of a robotic hand with hybrid structure on soft tissue handling that requires high precision and compliance. Throughout the study various prototype trials were carried out and their suitability for the system was discussed.