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International Journal of Bioprinting                                           Robotic in situ bioprinting



























                                           Figure 2. Typical process of robotic-assisted bioprinting.

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            Figure 3. Typical robot configurations for in situ 3D bioprinting. (A) Cartesian. (B) Design and material deposition onto a moving hand by the robot
            (from ref. [33] licensed under IEEE license). (C) Articulated. (D) Design and construction on inverted surface by the robotic bioprinter  (from ref. [41]
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            licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license). (E) Parallel. (F) Design and adaptive printing on a human hand, which can move freely in the
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            workspace  (from ref. [46] licensed under John Wiley and Sons license).
            degrees of freedom (DOF) . O’Neill et al. demonstrated   anatomy (Figure 3B). The robotic platform employed the
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            the feasibility of robotic deposition of biocompatible   XYZ gantry system, in which the motions along the axis
            materials directly onto unconstrained, moving human   were actuated by stepper motors .
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            Volume 9 Issue 1 (2023)                        101                      https://doi.org/10.18063/ijb.v9i1.629
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