Purpose#R##N#Fibre optic colonoscopy is usually performed with manual introduction and advancement of the endoscope, but there is potential for a robot capable of locomoting autonomously from the rectum to the caecum. A prototype robot was designed and tested.
['Gabriele Trovato', 'M. Shikanai', 'Genya Ukawa', 'June Kinoshita', 'Noriyuki Murai', 'Jaelin Lee', 'Hiroyuki Ishii', 'Atsuo Takanishi', 'Kazuo Tanoue', 'Satoshi Ieiri', 'Kozo Konishi', 'Makoto Hashizume']
Development of a colon endoscope robot that adjusts its locomotion through the use of reinforcement learning