Nikolaos Gkotsis

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Nikolaos Gkotsis is a researcher at the forefront of medical robotics, specializing in the design of soft robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery. His work focuses on two critical challenges: developing intelligent surgical instruments that can replicate the sense of touch, and creating novel drug delivery mechanisms. Gkotsis’s most impactful contribution is the "Component based design of a drug delivery capsule robot" (26 citations), which presents a modular approach for creating ingestible robots capable of targeted therapeutic release. He is also widely recognized for his pioneering work on "Towards a soft robotic skin for autonomous tissue palpation" (15 citations), a project that addresses a fundamental limitation of robotic surgery—the loss of tactile feedback. By proposing a soft, sensorized skin, Gkotsis aims to restore a surgeon’s ability to localize tumors and other subsurface features during minimally invasive procedures, a task currently impossible with rigid tools. His research elegantly bridges soft robotics, sensing, and autonomous control, promising to make robotic surgery safer and more effective by giving machines a human-like sense of touch.