Telerobotic system for cell manipulation

Abstract

In this paper, telerobotic system for cell injection applications is proposed. Fidelity and stability are contradicting factors in teleoperation. Most of cells manipulations nowadays are performed manually by the human operators. These highly precise operations require high-skilled professional operators. However, the success and survival rate of the cells is very low due to the great sensitivity of cells. Moreover, while manipulating, operator cannot feel any interaction with the cells because of their negligible mass, therefore all the operations are based on the visual information provided by the high-precision microscope. In addition, during every operation the human's hand has a certain vibration that can affect the quality of teleoperation, especially in telesurgery, nanomanipuation and other precise tasks. All of the reasons listed above show that the cells manipulation is an exclusively complex task for a human operator to perform. Therefore, applying telerobotic system for the cells manipulation may provide us with many advantages and could help us to overcome the problems listed above.