Papers
87
Total Citations
3,642
H-Index
37
About
Soo Jay Phee is a pioneering researcher in surgical robotics and minimally invasive medical technologies, whose work has fundamentally shaped how robotic systems are designed and deployed in endoscopic and transluminal surgery. His research spans actuator-driven surgical robots, force-sensing instrumentation, tendon-sheath mechanism modeling, and Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), placing him at the forefront of a paradigm shift in how surgeons interact with the human body. Among his most celebrated contributions is the development of the Master and Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot (MASTER), a landmark system enabling complex endoscopic procedures such as submucosal dissection of gastric lesions — work clinically validated in patient trials and cited over 130 times. His fiber-optic force-sensing tool for retinal microsurgery, with sub-millimetric precision and 0.25 mN resolution, addressed a critical gap in delicate ocular interventions. Phee also made substantial theoretical advances in modeling hysteresis and nonlinear friction in tendon-sheath systems, foundational to controlling flexible surgical robots reliably. With multiple papers exceeding 100 citations and a highly cited survey on surgical robot actuators, Phee's body of work reflects both scientific depth and broad influence across robotics, biomedical engineering, and clinical practice.
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Top Papers
- 1A survey on actuators-driven surgical robots206 citations · 2016
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- 9Locomotion techniques for robotic colonoscopy100 citations · 2006
- 10Robotic system for no‐scar gastrointestinal surgery98 citations · 2008