IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

29/12/2020

Goodbye Year 2020
The last issue of the year 2020 of T-MRB is online.
Check the November 2020 Issue (Volume 2 Issue 4) of T-MRB on IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=9267756&punumber=8253409
The Issue includes 11 regular issue papers and a selection of 16 Special Section papers on the 2020 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR2020).

29/12/2020

Check the August 2020 Issue (Volume 2 Issue 3) of T-MRB on IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=9172154&punumber=8253409
The Issue includes 8 regular issue papers and a selection of 12 Special Section papers on the 2019 International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS2019).

25/08/2020

CALL FOR PAPERS FOCUSED SECTION ON “BIONIC ORGANS AND TISSUES”
This Focused Section aims to attract papers on artificial/bioartificial organs and tissues, but also on organs-on-a-chip, tissues-on-a-chip, advanced materials for bionic systems, smart patches for drug delivery and smart coatings.
Guest Editors: Leonardo Ricotti, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Toshinori Fujie, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Ellen Roche, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Deadline for papers submission: October 15, 2020.
Expected publication date: Volume 3, Issue 2 (May 2021)

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01/06/2020

The May issue 2020 (vol. 2 issue 2) of T-MRB is online! Check it on Xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8253409
The issue includes 7 regular papers and 12 papers in a Special Section on the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2019.

19/05/2020

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27/04/2020

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17/12/2019

📣 Last Friday, December 6, 2019, the vol. 1 issue 4 of T-MRB was officially released.

⬇️ For your own collection, here you can find the IEEE Xplore links to download the four 2019 complete issues of T-MRB:

👉🏻Volume 1 Issue 1 (February 2019): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?isnumber=8653631
👉🏻Volume 1 Issue 2 (May 2019): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?isnumber=8716612
👉🏻Volume 1 Issue 3 (August 2019): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?isnumber=8809235
👉🏻Volume 1 Issue 4 (November 2019): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?isnumber=8924880

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07/11/2019

Volume 1 Issue 4 of T-MRB will be released by November 30, 2019.
Visit IEEE Xplore to access the early access articles included in the issue.

26/09/2019

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27/08/2019

Matching the spiking activity of Merkel mechanoreceptors with biomimetic tactile sensors.
Reproducing the tactile feedback represents a major challenge in upper limb neuroprostheses.
Here, authors emulated the firing behavior of Merkel mechanoreceptors, innervated by slowly adapting type I (SA1) receptors, in silico by means of a custom implementation of the Izhikevich spiking neuron model with a porting function of the sensors output.

A Neuromorphic Model to Match the Spiking Activity of Merkel Mechanoreceptors With Biomimetic Tactile Sensors for Bioengineering Applications.
Davide Esposito a,b, Francesco Lanotte a, Chiara Mugnai a, Luca Massari a, Domenico Camboni a,
Alberto Mazzoni a , and Calogero Maria Oddo a.
a The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 56025 Pontedera, Italy.
b The Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genoa, Italy.

A major challenge in upper limb neuroprostheses is to reproduce the tactile feedback as the one provided by the spiking activity of human mechanoreceptors.

12/06/2019

Restoring motor functions through robotic exoskeletons.

Examples on how knowledge gained from the design and implementation of human–machine interfaces for bionic arms can benefit the field of rehabilitation exoskeletons are reported in two selected clinical scenarios, including post-stroke and Duchenne muscular dystrophy individuals.

Transferrable Expertise From Bionic Arms to Robotic Exoskeletons: Perspectives for Stroke and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Kostas Nizamis a, Arno H. A. Stienen b, Derek G. Kamper c, Thierry Keller d, Dick H. Plettenburg e, Elliott J. Rouse f, Dario Farina g, Bart F. J. M. Koopman a, and Massimo Sartori a.

a Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Technical Medical Centre, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
b Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611 USA
c Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA.
d Neurorehabilitation Area at the Health Division, TECNALIA, E-20009 San Sebastian, Spain.
e Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.
f Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.
g Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.

Upper extremity function is affected by a variety of neurological conditions. Robotic exoskeletons offer a potential solution for motor restoration. Howeve