Margherita Brancadoro
Papers
10
Total Citations
556
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About
Margherita Brancadoro is a robotics and biomedical engineering researcher whose work sits at the intersection of soft robotics and minimally invasive surgery (MIS). She has made significant contributions to the design and development of flexible, dexterous robotic systems aimed at overcoming the inherent limitations of conventional surgical instruments. Her most cited work, "Highly Dexterous 2-Module Soft Robot for Intra-Organ Navigation in Minimally Invasive Surgery" (2017, 119 citations), introduced a pioneering soft robotic platform specifically addressing complex procedures such as Total Mesorectal Excision. A particularly distinctive thread of her research involves variable stiffness mechanisms, especially fiber jamming transitions, explored across multiple influential papers (2018–2020, accumulating over 245 citations combined), establishing her as a leading voice in tunable-stiffness soft robotic structures. Beyond structural innovation, Brancadoro has investigated haptic feedback restoration for the da Vinci Research Kit and developed specialized microwave applicators for robotic liver resection. Her body of work, spanning cadaveric feasibility studies to dynamic modeling, demonstrates a rigorous translational approach — bridging fundamental soft robotics science with tangible clinical applications and meaningfully advancing the safety and capability of next-generation surgical robotic systems.
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- 3Fiber Jamming Transition as a Stiffening Mechanism for Soft Robotics90 citations · 2020
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- 8A new microwave applicator for laparoscopic and robotic liver resection11 citations · 2018
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