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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Robot. 2021 Nov 10;6(60):eabi8017. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abi8017

Fig. 2. Medical robotics papers published in engineering and medical journal papers from 1990 to 2020.

Fig. 2.

Curves report total numbers along with subsets corresponding to hot topics of laparoscopic robots, therapeutic rehabilitation robots and assistive wearable robots. Note that 2020 publications are potentially reduced by COVID-19 shutdowns. (Data from Web of Science: see Materials and Methods).