Kent Yamamoto

Duke University Mechanical Eng. Ph.D. Candidate ⚙️ NSF GRFP / Brain Tool Lab / HeaRT Lab 🧠🩺🤖 Surgical Tools, Simulators, and Robots!

[Kent Yamamoto @KentKYamamoto]

🤖 New Paper alert! 🧠
"Tendon-Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER)" with @TannerZachem available via JMRR!

- 🐍 New robot for endoscopic endonasal approaches!
-〰️Nonlinear trajectories!
- 🧠Cadaver trials!

@DukeEngineering @DukeMedSchool @Dukeneurosurg

[Duke University School of Medicine @DukeMedSchool]

🏆 @DukeSurgery's SEAL team earned top honors at the 2025 Surgeons and Engineers Meeting for their 3D-printed inguinal hernia simulator.

The model enhances surgical training while significantly reducing costs.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/NzSmXH6mVT

[Kent Yamamoto @KentKYamamoto]

Such an awesome team of students and advocates for inclusive education!

[Duke Graduate School @DukeGradSchool]

"BOOST Beyond has been one of the most impactful aspects of my training at Duke." Congrats to BOOST Beyond for the Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education! https://t.co/OTv26Byk0r
@boost_beyond @DukeU

[Duke Neurosurgery @Dukeneurosurg]

Congrats to Kent Yamamoto, student member of Duke Neurosurgery's Brain Tool Lab, who presented "Incident Angle Study for Designing an Endoscopic Tool for Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection" @ Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics @ the Imperial College London #BrainTumorThursday

[Kent Yamamoto @KentKYamamoto]

@Dukeneurosurg Just started using X! Thank you for sharing my work!

[Duke Neurosurgery @Dukeneurosurg]

Patrick Codd helped start out Friday at @southernneuro annual meeting with "Minimize the Surgeon: Fully Autonomous Robots."