Contents
15 March 2017
Vol 2, Issue 4
Vol 2, Issue 4
Editorial
- Medical robotics—Regulatory, ethical, and legal considerations for increasing levels of autonomy
A proposed framework for regulatory, ethical, and legal discussions identifies six levels of autonomy for medical robotics.
Focus
- Socially assistive robotics: Human augmentation versus automation
Intelligent interactive robots assist by socially motivating, coaching, and encouraging human work rather than automating it.
- Growing tissue grafts on humanoid robots: A future strategy in regenerative medicine?
Humanoid robots may enhance growth of musculoskeletal tissue grafts for tissue transplant applications.
Research Articles
- Instrument flight to the inner ear
Image-guided robotic surgery, designed for operating on small structures, is demonstrated for robotic cochlear implantation.
- Micrometer-sized molecular robot changes its shape in response to signal molecules
An amoeba-like molecular robot changes its shape in response to sequence-designed DNA signal molecules.
Review
- Micro/nanorobots for biomedicine: Delivery, surgery, sensing, and detoxification
Small robots may solve big challenges in biomedicine, including diagnosis, detoxification, drug delivery, and surgery.
About The Cover
ONLINE COVER A Focus on the Person. This month's issue of Science Robotics highlights potential benefits of medical robots for a range of tasks from drug delivery to early childhood education. [CREDIT: COMOTION_DESIGN/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM]
