Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Amedical device including a continuum robot is used. PTL 1 d iscloses a configuration in which a medicaltool including a manipulator detects a tensile force that has occurred in a drive wire, and causes a tipflexing par t to be in a flexed state along a channel member by controlling an amount by whi ch the drivewire is driven by a drive motor such that the tensile force is in a target control range set in advance. Thus,in a case where the manipulator is i nserted through the channel member and sent to a site for use, it ispossible to easily perform the insertion operation.”
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