Masahiko Kawanishi
Papers
28
Total Citations
637
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About
Masahiko Kawanishi is a prominent biomedical robotics researcher whose work spans robotic-assisted vascular interventional surgery, rehabilitation robotics, and minimally invasive medical systems. His most celebrated contribution, a master-slave robotic catheter system with force and visual feedback for vascular interventional surgery (2012, 153 citations), established him as a pioneering figure in teleoperated surgical robotics, addressing critical challenges such as radiation exposure for surgeons and the precision demands of catheter manipulation. Building on this foundation, Kawanishi has advanced haptic feedback technologies, collision protection mechanisms, and magnetically controlled systems to enhance safety and operability in endovascular procedures. His more recent work extends into upper limb neurorehabilitation, where sEMG-driven variable stiffness control and bilateral robotic systems offer promising solutions for hemiplegia recovery. Notably, his development of a multifunctional magnetically controlled capsule robot for dual-drug delivery (2022, 32 citations) demonstrates impressive breadth across medical robotics domains. With a body of work accumulating hundreds of citations, Kawanishi's research consistently bridges engineering innovation with pressing clinical needs, making his scholarship essential reading for students and practitioners at the intersection of robotics, surgery, and rehabilitation medicine.
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- 8Magnetically Controlled Multifunctional Capsule Robot for Dual-Drug Delivery32 citations · 2022
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