New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics MESROB 2025

This book contains the papers of the 9th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Poitiers, France, on July 2-4, 2025. The main topics include: design of medical devices, kinematics and dynamics for medical robotics, exoskeletons and prostheses, anthropomorphic hands, therapeutic robots and rehabilitation, cognitive robots, humanoid and service robots, assistive robots and elderly assistance, surgical robots, human–robot interfaces, haptic devices, medical treatments, medical lasers, and surgical planning and navigation. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists, demonstrating that medical and service robotics will drive the technological and societal change in the coming decades.

Chapter "A Pneumatic HandHeld Device for Finger Active Tele-rehabilitation" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Design and Analysis of a Redundant Planar Parallel Robot with Variable Stiffness.- A 6 DOF Parallel Haptic Device for Initial Echography Training.- Review on Retractor Design to Enhance Minimally Invasive Pancreatectomy Addressing Challenges in Deep Tissue Access.- A generative design framework of surgical robots for assisted ophthalmic surgery.- Towards a 6 DOF Parallel Manipulator for Precise and Atraumatic Cochlear Implantation.- Robot assisted simulation for epidural anesthesia.- Design and experimental validation of a gynecological continuum robot.- Workbench Statics Evaluation of the quasi Spherical Parallel Manipulator.- Optimization of an Augmented R CUBE mechanism for Cervical Surgery.- Validation of a novel gesture tracking device for laparoscopy surgery training.- Haptic model of a redundant spherical parallel manipulator with unlimited self rotation.- Conceptual Design of a Flexible Instrument for Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Pancreatic Surgery.- Geometrical design analysis of a URRR URR parallel mechanism for percutaneous interventions.- Axial Stability Analysis of an Origami Inspired Soft Pneumatic Actuator.- Master/Slave system with non homothetic kinematics for Surgical Teleoperation.