Inroads Toward Robot-Assisted Internal Fixation of Bone Fractures Using a Bendable Medical Screw and the Curved Drilling Technique

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 28.

Published in final edited form as: Proc IEEE RAS EMBS Int Conf Biomed Robot Biomechatron. 2018 Oct 11;2018:595–600. doi: 10.1109/BIOROB.2018.8487926

Fig. 5. — (a) ortho-snake (OD=6 mm) with the flexible drill (OD=8.5 mm) passed through its 4 mm instrument channel; (b) designed and fabricated self-tapping BMS (OD=9.5 mm) for robot-assisted internal fixation of bone fractures.

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