The MISLI-Drive, a modular sterilizable robotic driver for steerable laparoscopic instruments.

Based on the success of the former "Shaft-Actuated, Tip-Articulated" SATA-Drive, a prototype robotic instrument driver for modular, steerable, laparoscopic instruments, a new driver is designed and tested to improve previously lacking features concerning cleanability, instrument adaptation, practical application and control. The design of the driver engages these issues with a modular design aimed at re-use of both the instrument and the driver, for which a set of design requirements are established. A new modular design has been developed to improve cleanability through separation of the electro-motors and the instrument mechanism which clutches the instrument.