2011年におけるスネークロボットデバイス市場は2011年に1550万米ドルとなりましたが、次世代のデバイス、システムおよび器具の登場により、2018年までに23億米ドルに達すると予測されています。
当レポートでは、世界のスネークロボット市場について分析し、市場の概要と製品概要、企業および大学研究機関による様々な技術開発動向とプロファイルを織り交ぜ、概略以下の構成にてお届けいたします。
Abstract
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (July 12, 2012) - WinterGreen Research
announces that it has published a new study Snake Robots: Market Shares,
Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 255
pages, 133 tables and figures. Worldwide snake robot markets are poised to
achieve significant growth as the next generation units provide a unique
movement mechanism and provide systems that provide a way to significantly
improve traditional open surgery.
The automated process revolution in surgery and communications is being
implemented via robots. Robots are automating systems, providing significant
improvement in the accuracy of surgery and penetration of spaces that were
previously impenetrable. .
According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, “A confined space
needs snake shapes to achieve access. Confined spaces exist by design
(aircraft engine), by failure (collapsed building) or naturally (human body).
Existing open surgery can be replaced in large part by robotic and minimally
invasive surgery (MIS). Minimally invasive surgery MIS, drug therapies,
radiation treatment, and emerging interventional surgical approaches
complement robotic surgery techniques as a replacement for or complement to
open surgery.”
During a robot assisted surgical procedure, the patient-side cart is
positioned next to the operating table with the electromechanical arms
arranged to provide access to the initial ports selected by the surgeon. Metal
tubes attached to the arms are inserted through the ports, and the cutting and
visualization instruments are introduced through the tubes into the patient's
body.
The surgeon performs the procedure while sitting at a console, manipulating
the instrument controls and viewing the operation through a vision system.
When a surgeon needs to change an instrument the instrument is withdrawn from
the surgical field using the controls at the console. This is done many times
during an operation.
Confined spaces exist. A confined space exists because of a lack of ability to
take apart or dismantle components. Confined spaces exist in nuclear reactors,
aircraft, the human body, industrial processing plant, underwater
environments, ship-building, space. Buildings, roads, pipelines and other
man-made spaces all have confined spaces. The world is full of awkward
confined spaces.
Snake-arm robots are self-contained portable devices and extensions to
existing systems. These products build on software and hardware technology.
The companies that get an early foothold in the market have significant
strategic advantage. The robotic snake leverages a new technique for robotic
movement that benefits users by providing efficient access to difficult
spaces. This factor is driving demand for snake robot systems. Since robotics
provide a precise, repeatable and controlled ability to perform procedures in
tight spaces, they are increasingly in demand.
The aging US population has supported demand for robotic surgical instruments,
since the occurrence of health issues that require medical devices is higher
in the elderly population. Buoyed by strong demand and sales, industry profit
margins have increased.
Snake robot device markets at $15.5 million in 2011 are anticipated to reach
$2.3 billion by 2018 as next devices, systems, and instruments are introduced
to manage access to difficult spaces through small ports when large openings
are unavailable or inconvenient.
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Table of Contents
Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts
- Snake Robot Market Driving Forces
- Snake Robots Market Shares
- Snake Robot Market Forecasts
1. Snake Robots Market Description and Market Dynamics
- 1.1. Snake Robots Are Different
- 1.2. Modsnake Robots
- 1.2.1. Modsnake Robots Support Human Workers
- 1.3. Snakelike Robots Slither over Rough Landscape
- 1.4. Snake Robots Locomote
- 1.5. Serpentine Robot Applications
- 1.5.1. Seizing the Robotics Opportunity
- 1.5.2. Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Systems
- 1.6. Public Aware That Robotics Have “Arrived”
- 1.7. Next Generation Snake Robotics
2. Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts
- 2.1. Snake Robot Market Driving Forces
- 2.2. Snake Robots Market Shares
- 2.3. Snake Robot Variety of Applications
- 2.3.1. HiBot / Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM
- 2.3.2. OC Robotics Snake-Arm for Aircraft Assembly
- 2.3.3. Minimally Invasive Equipment Surgical Robots
- 2.3.4. Medrobotics Cardioarm Is A Jointed Robot
- 2.3.5. SINTEF Robot Snakes Climb Pipes
- 2.3.6. University of Southampton.
- 2.3.7. CCTV Inspection
- 2.4. Snake Robot Market Forecasts
- 2.4.1. Cardiac Surgery Snake Robots Market Forecasts
- 2.4.2. Medrobotics Initial Goal Is To Help Avoid Open-Heart Surgery
- 2.4.3. Minimally Invasive Surgery Positioning: Medrobotics
- Requires One Incision At The Bottom Of The Ribs
- Whereas The Da Vinci Endoscopic
- Surgical System Could Require Up To Six Incision Points
- 2.4.4. Medrobotics Positioning
- 2.5. Snake Robot Prices
- 2.5.1. Inaccessible Spaces - OC Robotics
- 2.5.2. Cardiac Surgery - Cardioarm
- 2.6. Snake Robots Regional Market Analysis
3. Snake Robot Product Description
- 3.1. OC Robotics
- 3.1.1. OC Robotics The Explorer Range
- 3.1.2. OC Robotics Snake-Arm Control
- 3.1.3. OC Robotics Snake-Arm Simulator
- 3.1.4. OC Robotics Snake-Arm for Aircraft Assembly
- 3.1.5. OC Robotics Extender Snake Range Of - Motion Robots Reach The
Unreachable
- 3.1.6. OC Robotics Snake-Arm -
- 3.1.7. OC Robotics
- 3.1.8. OC Energy & Environment Robotics
- 3.2. University of Michigan All-Terrain Robotics:
- 3.2.1. University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Omnitread
- 3.2.2. OmniTread Robot Snakes
- 3.3. Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC
- 3.3.1. The FLEXnav Proprioceptive Position Estimation (PPE) System
- 3.3.2. Applied Robotics Technologies Pricing
- 3.3.3. Heuristic Drift Reduction for Gyros in Vehicle Tracking
Applications
- 3.3.4. Applied Robotics Technologies Key Benefits
- 3.3.5. Applied Robotics Technologies Pricing
- 3.4. NASA Robotic Snakes
- 3.5. Canadian Robotics Ltd.
- 3.6. Japan Guru World-Class Snake Robotics
- 3.7. NTNU and SINTEF in Norway World-Class Snake Robotics
- 3.7.1. Sintef Anna Konda
- 3.7.2. Anna Konda Firefighting Snakebot
- 3.7.3. Sintef Aiko
- 3.7.4. Sintef Pneumosnake
- 3.7.5. Sintef PiKo
- 3.7.6. Sintef Climbing Robot
- 3.7.7. Sintef Robot Learning
- 3.7.8. Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU Pneumosnake -
Snake Robot With Pneumatic Bellows
- 3.8. Hibot
- 3.8.1. Hibot Pipetron
- 3.8.2. HiBot Expliner
- 3.8.3. HiBot ACM-R4H
- 3.8.4. HiBot ACM-R5
- 3.8.5. Hibot ACM-R5 Amphibious Robosnake
- 3.8.6. HiBot Japanese Snake Robot
- 3.9. Medrobotics
- 3.9.1. Medrobotics Snakelike Robots for Heart Surgery
- 3.9.2. Medrobotics Cardiac Surgery Snake Robot
- 3.9.3. Medrobotics Single Incision vs. Other Systems with Six Incision
Points
- 3.10. Maintaining High Voltage Transmission Lines Using Robotics
- 3.10.1. Hydro-Quebec Research Institute (IREQ)LineScout Tele-Operated
Obstacle Crossing System
- 3.10.2. HiBot Expliner
- 3.10.3. America's Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Autonomous
Version
4. Snake Robot Technology
- 4.1. Actuated Joints In A Tight Volume
- 4.2. OC Robotics
- 4.2.1. OC Robotics Develops Snake-Arm Robots For Confined Spaces
- 4.2.2. OC Robotics Snake Arm Actuator Pack
- 4.2.3. OC Robotics Snake Arm
- 4.2.4. OC Robotics Tool
- 4.2.5. OC Robotics Confined Space Piece Manipulation
- 4.2.6. OC Robotics Confined Space Reach
- 4.3. OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Basics
- 4.3.1. OC Robotics Snake Robot Curvature -
- 4.3.2. OC Robotics Protective Skins
- 4.3.3. OC Robotics Manages Hazardous Environments -
- 4.3.4. OC Robotics Software - SoftSnake
- 4.3.5. OC Robotics PipeSnake
- 4.3.6. OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Aircraft Assembly
- 4.4. CISST ERC Snake Robot
- 4.5. Bio-Robotics Lab
- 4.6. Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
- 4.7. Sintef
- 4.7.1. Sintef Aiko Snake Robot With Electric Motors
- 4.8. Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Land and Amphibious Robot Snake
- 4.8.1. Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM-R5 Control System
- 4.8.2. Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot
- 4.8.3. Hirose Fukushima Lab pneumatically-driven Slime Robot
- 4.8.4. Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of Technology Amphibious
Snake Robot - ACM-R5
- 4.9. DrGavin S7 Snake Robot Rectilinear Locomotion
- 4.9.1. Nottingham Trent University
- 4.10. Israeli Army Deploys Robot Snakes
- 4.10.1. Israeli Military Develops Robot Snake Bomb Hirose Fukushima Lab
- 4.11. Merlin Robotics, Nottingham Trent University Robot Snake Dance
- 4.12. Snake Bot at Carnegie Mellon
- 4.12.1. Carnegie Mellon Conforming Loop
- 4.13. CardioArm Biomedicine Snakelike Robots for Heart Surgery
- 4.13.1. Snake Robot Helps Wounded Soldiers
- 4.14. Hughes Aircraft R7 Early Robotic Snake
- 4.15. British 'Serpentine Spy'
- 4.16. IDF Spy Robot Snake
- 4.17. SINTEF Robot Snakes Climb Pipes
- 4.17.1. SINTEF Anna Konda
- 4.18. Climbing Snakes Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
- 4.19. NASA Snake-bot VS InnoSTAR
- 4.20. Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC
5. Snake Robots Company Profiles
- 5.1. Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC
- 5.2. Medrobotics
- 5.2.1. Medrobotics Closes $11.7 Million In "Series C" Funding
- 5.2.2. Medrobotics Several Generations Of Snake Robot Platforms
- 5.2.3. Medrobotics Advances Clinical Development of Snake Robot for
Surgery
- 5.2.4. Medrobotics Positioning
- 5.2.5. Cardiac Surgery Gold Standard
- 5.2.6. Medrobotics Snake Robot Technologies For Use In A Wide Range Of
Surgical And Interventional Applications
- 5.2.7. Medrobotics Technology & Research Center
- 5.3. HiBot
- 5.4. OC Robotics
- 5.4.1. OC Robotics Technology & Innovation
- 5.4.2. OC Roboics Robots Extend The Reach Of Manual Process
- 5.4.3. OC Robotics A CANDU Snake-Arm Robot
- 5.4.4. OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots
- 5.5. University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Omnitread
- 5.6. Tokyo Institute of Technology Research Laboratories
- 5.6.1. Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM
- 5.6.2. Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Hibot
- 5.7. Sintef
- 5.8. Selected List of University and Research Snake Robots
List of Tables and Figures
Snake Robots Executive Summary
- Table ES-1: Snake Robot Market Driving Forces
- Table ES-2: Confined Spaces
- Figure ES-3: Snake Robots Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
- Figure ES-4: Snake Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide,
2012-2018
Snake Robots Market Description and Market Dynamics
- Figure 1-1: Mod Snake Robots Snake robots are different.
- Table 1-2: Serpentine Robot Applications
Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts
- Table 2-1: Snake Robot Market Driving Forces
- Table 2-2: Confined Spaces
- Figure 2-3: Snake Robots Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
- Figure 2-4: Snake Robots Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
- Figure 2-5: HiBot Inspection of High-Voltage Power Lines
- Figure 2-6: HiBot Balances on High-Voltage Power Lines
- Figure 2-7: Robotic Snake Permits Surgeon to Enter Heart Via Mouth
- Figure 2-8: Snake Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide,
2012-2018
- Table 2-9: Snake Robots Market Industry Segments, Reaching
Unreachable, Surgery, Surveillance, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018
- Figure 2-10: Snake Robot Market Forecasts, Units, Worldwide,
2012-2018
- Figure 2-11: Snake Robot Market Industry Segments, Units,
Worldwide, 2012-2018
- Figure 2-12: Cardiac Surgery Snake Robots Market Forecasts,
Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018
- Figure 2-13: Reaching The Un Reachable Snake Robot Market Forecasts
Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018
- Figure 2-14: Snake Robots Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2011
- Table 2-15: Snake Robots Regional Market Segments, 2010
Snake Robots Product Description
- Figure 3-1: OC Robotics Explorer Range
- Figure 3-2: OC Robotics Explorer Range User Interface
- Figure 3-3: OC Robotics Explorer Range Actuator Pack
- Figure 3-4: OC Robotics Explorer Range Snake Arm
- Figure 3-5: OC Robotics Explorer Arm Extensions
- Figure 3-6: OC Robotics Extender Snake Range Of - Motion
- Figure 3-7: OC Robotics Extender Models and Payloads
- Figure 3-7 (Continued): OC Robotics Extender Models and Payloads
- Figure 3-8: OC Robotics Arms in Confined Spaces
- Table 3-9: University of Michigan Omnitread Innovations:
- Figure 3-10: University of Michigan Omnitread
- Table 3-11: University of Michigan Mobile Omnitread Robotic Motion
Capabilities
- Table 3-12: University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Omnitread
Robotic Motion Capabilities
- Figure 3-13: Omnitread robot snakes
- Figure 3-14: FLEXnav PPE System
- Table 3-15: FLEXnav PPE System Features
- Figure 3-16: Applied Robotics Technologies Typical Experimental
Results: Position Errors After 120-160 M Travel On Moderately Rugged Terrain
- Figure 3-17: Sintef Anna Konda
- Table 3-18: Anna KondaTechnical data
- Figure 3-19: Sintef's Anna Konda Snake Robot
- Table 3-20: Sintef's Anna Konda Firefighting Snakebot
- Table 3-21: SINTEF Firefighting Snakebot Components
- Figure 3-22: Norwegian Company Sintef Anna Konda
- Table 3-23: SINTEF Firefighting Snakebot Target Markets
- Figure 3-24: Sintef Aiko
- Table 3-25: SINTEF / NTNU Aiko Technical data
- Figure 3-26: Sintef Pneumosnake
- Figure 3-27: Sintef PiKo
- Figure 3-28: Sintef PiKo Robot For Vertical Movement
- Figure 3-29: Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU
Pneumosnake Snake Robot With Pneumatic Bellows
- Table 3-30: Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU Technical
data
- Table 3-31: NTNU / SINTEF Next Generation Robotics for Norwegian
Industry
- Figure 3-32: HiBot 52
- Figure 3-33: HiBot Expliner
- Figure 3-34: HiBot ACM-R4H
- Figure 3-35: HiBot ACM-R5
- Figure 3-36: Hibot ACM-R5 Amphibious Robosnake
- Figure 3-37: Hibot ACM-R5 Amphibious Robosnake
- Table 3-38: Medrobotics Medical Field Target Markets
- Figure 3-39: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke Looking At
Snaking Robot Camera Made by Medrobotics
Snake Robots Technology
- Figure 4-1: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Remote Car Inspection
- Figure 4-2: Robotics Develops Snake-Arm Robots For Confined Spaces
- Figure 4-3: OC Robotics Actuator Pack
- Figure 4-4: OC Robotics Snake Arm
- Figure 4-5: OC Robotics Snake Robot Tool
- Table 4-6: OC Robotics Able To Snake Into Cluttered Environments
- Figure 4-7: OC Robotics Extend Robot Arms With Elbows
- Figure 4-8: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Basics
- Figure 4-9: OC Robotics Snake Curvatures
- Figure 4-10: OC Robotics Protective Skins
- Figure 4-11: OC Robotics Arm Materials Allow For Radiation, Heat,
Vacuum, Magnetic Fields, And Operations In Explosive Atmospheres
- Figure 4-12: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Extend Reach Of The Human
- Figure 4-13: OC Robotics PipeSnake
- Figure 4-14: OC Robotics Snake Robot Angle of Curvature
- Figure 4-15: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Aircraft
- Figure 4-16: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Extender
- Figure 4-17: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Made Up Of A Large Number
Of Segments
- Figure 4-18: CISST ERC Snake Robot
- Figure 4-19: Bio-Robotics Lab Snake Robots that Climb
- Figure 4-20: Bio-Robotics Lab Snake Robot Climbing
- Figure 4-21: Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute Door Opening Robot
- Figure 4-22: Sintef Snake Robot Designed To Be Used To Put Out Fires
- Figure 4-23: Sintef Anna Konda Robot Equipped With Nozzles
- Figure 4-24: Sintef Aiko Snake Robot With Electric Motors
- Figure 2-25: Sintef's Snake Robot
- Figure 4-26: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM-R5 - Amphibious Robot Snake
- Figure 4-27: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot
- Table 4-28: Slim Slime ACM Robot Features
- Table 4-29: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot Applications
- Figure 4-30: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Serpentine Propulsion
- Figure 4-31: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM xSlim Slime Robot With a Child
- Figure 4-32: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot Module
Construction
- Figure 4-33: Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Fukushima Lab
ACM Snake Like Trackers
- Figure 4-34: Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Fukushima Lab
ACM Snake Like Creep Motion Of Snake, Pedal Waves Of Snail And Limpet, Lateral
Rolling, And Pivot Turn
- Figure 4-35: Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Robot Snake Modular
Construction
- Figure 4-36: Snake Robot Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of
Technology
- Figure 4-37: Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of Technology
ACM-R5
- Figure 4-38: Robot Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of
Technology Amphibious Snake Robot - ACM-R5
- Table 4-39: DrGavin S7 Rectilinear Locomotion Snake Robot
- Figure 4-40: DrGavin S7 Sensor Suite That Includes Detectors
- Figure 4-41: DrGavin S5 Robot Snake Control System Electronics
Functional Diagram
- Figure 4-42: DrGavin Robot Snake
- Figure 4-43: Merlin Robotics / Nottingham Trent University Air
Robot Snake
- Figure 4-44: Israeli Army Deploys Robot Snakes
- Figure 4-45: Israeli Army Bomb Hirose Fukushima Lab Robot Snakes
- Figure 4-46: Israeli Snake Robot
- Figure 4-47: Merlin Robotics, Nottingham Trent University Robot
Snake Dance
- Figure 4-48: Snake Bot at the Carnegie Mellon
- Figure 4-49: Carnegie Mellon Modular Bot
- Figure 4-50: Carnegie Mellon Modular Bot Tricycle Riding
- Figure 4-51: Carnegie Mellon Obstacle Climbing
- Figure 4-52: Carnegie Mellon Fence Climbing
- Figure 4-53: Carnegie Mellon Stair Climbing
- Figure 4-54: CardioArm Biomedicine Snakelike Robots for Heart
Surgery
- Figure 4-55: Snake Robot Helps Wounded Soldiers
- Figure 4-56: Hughes Aircraft R7 Early Robotic Snake
- Figure 4-57: British Military Reconnaissance Robot Can Be Dropped
From A Helicopter
- Figure 4-58: University of Southampton Anaconda Rubber Snake
Generates Power From Waves
- Figure 4-59: SINTEF Robot Snakes Climb Pipes
- Figure 4-60: SINTEF Anna Konda The Fire Fighting Snake Robot
- Figure 4-61: SINTEF Aiko Snake Robot With Electric Motors
- Figure 4-62: Sintef Pneumosnake Snake Robot With Pneumatic Bellows
- Figure 4-63: Climbing Snakes Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon
University
- Figure 4-64: InnoSTAR™ Robotic Kit
- Figure 4-65: Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC Fiber Optic Gyros
Function Of Rate Of Rotation And Temperature
Snake Robots Company Profiles
- Table 5-1: Cardiac Surgery Improvements
- Table 5-2: Medrobotics Snake Robot Technologies For Use In A Wide
Range Of Surgical And Interventional Applications
- Table 5-3: Medrobotics Snake Robot Technologies Specialist Areas
Served
- Figure 5-4: OC Robotics
- Figure 5-5: OC Robotics Conducts Inspections Within CANDU Reactors
- Figure 5-6: OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Technology
- Table 5-7: University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Areas Of
Interest
- Figure 5-8: Tokyo Institute of Technology Electrochemistry
Spextroscopic Techniquees