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papers

• Losing Focus: Can It Be Useful in Robotic Laser Surgery?
• Benefits of Side‐Firing Optical Fibers in Endoscopic Laser Treatment of the Larynx
• When the End Effector is a Laser: a Review of Robotics in Laser Surgery
• Light in the Larynx: a Miniaturized Robotic Optical Fiber for In-office Laser Surgery of the Vocal Folds
• Multi Jet Fusion of Nylon-12: A Viable Method to 3D-print Concentric Tube Robots?
• Identification of Tissue Optical Properties During Thermal Laser-Tissue Interactions: An Ensemble Kalman Filter-Based Approach
• μRALP and Beyond: Micro-Technologies and Systems for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Laser Microsurgery
• Optical Fiber Coupling System for Steerable Endoscopic Instruments
• Beyond Constant Curvature: A New Mechanics Model for Unidirectional Notched-Tube Continuum Wrists
• Bringing the Light Inside the Body to Perform Better Surgery
• On the Merits of Using Angled Fiber Tips in Office-based Laser Surgery of the Vocal Folds
• Eyes in Ears: A Miniature Steerable Digital Endoscope for Trans-Nasal Diagnosis of Middle Ear Disease
• Computational Optimization of Notch Spacing for a Transnasal Ear Endoscopy Continuum Robot
• Analysis of middle ear morphology for design of a transnasal endoscope
• Towards Flexible Steerable Instruments for Office-Based Laryngeal Surgery
• Laser incision depth control in robot-assisted soft tissue microsurgery
• Through the Eustachian Tube and Beyond: A New Miniature Robotic Endoscope to See into the Middle Ear

paper

• Losing Focus: Can It Be Useful in Robotic Laser Surgery?
• Benefits of Side‐Firing Optical Fibers in Endoscopic Laser Treatment of the Larynx
• When the End Effector is a Laser: a Review of Robotics in Laser Surgery
• Light in the Larynx: a Miniaturized Robotic Optical Fiber for In-office Laser Surgery of the Vocal Folds
• Multi Jet Fusion of Nylon-12: A Viable Method to 3D-print Concentric Tube Robots?
• Identification of Tissue Optical Properties During Thermal Laser-Tissue Interactions: An Ensemble Kalman Filter-Based Approach
• μRALP and Beyond: Micro-Technologies and Systems for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Laser Microsurgery
• Optical Fiber Coupling System for Steerable Endoscopic Instruments
• Beyond Constant Curvature: A New Mechanics Model for Unidirectional Notched-Tube Continuum Wrists
• Bringing the Light Inside the Body to Perform Better Surgery
• On the Merits of Using Angled Fiber Tips in Office-based Laser Surgery of the Vocal Folds
• Eyes in Ears: A Miniature Steerable Digital Endoscope for Trans-Nasal Diagnosis of Middle Ear Disease
• Computational Optimization of Notch Spacing for a Transnasal Ear Endoscopy Continuum Robot
• Analysis of middle ear morphology for design of a transnasal endoscope
• Towards Flexible Steerable Instruments for Office-Based Laryngeal Surgery
• Laser incision depth control in robot-assisted soft tissue microsurgery
• Through the Eustachian Tube and Beyond: A New Miniature Robotic Endoscope to See into the Middle Ear

team

• Kyla Fu
• Kang Zhang
• Prathamesh Mehta
• Kalina Bonofiglio
• Adri Rajamaran
• Ethan Wilke
• Ananya Gopalan
• Chris DeMaio
• Julia Farnum
• Jackie Lopez
• Yash Garje
• Colin Reynolds
• Ryan Tougas
• Rositsa Mihaleva
• Hoang (John) Do
• Emily Minch
• Kalani Picho
• Brandon Persons
• Ankit Vedak
• Zhongchuan Xu
• Samuel Q. Johnson
• Sabrina T. Liu
• Phillip Abell
• Jialin Song
• Nicholas Pacheco
• Jesse F. d'Almeida
• Isabelle A. Chan
• The TTR Team
• The SCREAM 2.0 Team
• Mostafa Atalla
• Karim Tarabein
• Alex J. Chiluisa
• Shravan Murlidaran
• Sam Moriarty
• Nicholas Fajardo
• The THERMAL Team
• The SCREAM Team
• Loris Fichera

news

• NSF CAREER Award
• Research featured on the Front Cover of the Laryngoscope
• New Journal Paper on the Laryngoscope
• New Review Paper on Robotic Systems for Laser Surgery
• Alex and Nick Pass Qualifying Exams
• Alex Presents Poster at ICRA Workshop
• Dr. Fichera Featured on WCCA
• Nick is awarded the NSF GRFP!
• Paper Accepted at the Hamlyn Symposium
• Invited Talk at ISMR 2022
• New Journal Paper
• Four recent papers from the lab
• Upcoming paper in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• Lab members win multiple senior awards
• Jesse and Nick Master's thesis defenses
• Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2021
• Upcoming paper in Science Robotics
• Invited talk at IROS 2020 workshop on surgical robotics
• Papers accepted at SPIE Medical Imaging 2021
• Abtract accepted - 2020 Fall Voice Conference
• New NIH Award
• Moving to Remote Operations
• Invited Talk at IEEE RAS Boston Chapter
• TRIAD Grant Award
• Dr. Fichera to serve on Advisory Board of the WPI Office for Undergraduate Research
• Shravan, Karim and Nick graduate
• Invited Talk at WCEES 3.0
• Award finalists at DMD 2019

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projects

• Continuum Steerable Instruments for In-Office Vocal Folds Surgery
• Automated Laser Ablation of Soft Tissue
• Looking into the ear by way of the nose