This volume contains the papers of the 7th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Basel, Switzerland, on June 7-9, 2021. The main topics include: design of medical devices, kinematics and dynamics for medical robotics, exoskeletons and prostheses, anthropomorphic hands, therapeutic robots and rehabilitation, cognitive robots, humanoid and service robots, assistive robots and elderly assistance, surgical robots, human-robot interfaces, haptic devices, medical treatments, medical lasers, and surgical planning and navigation. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists, demonstrating that medical and service robotics ****will drive the technological and societal change in the coming decades.

Written by leading experts in the field Features the state of the art in medical and service robotics Brought together researchers and industry professionals from engineering, robotics and medicine

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Chapter 1: Serious Games Strategies with Cable-Driven Robots for Rehabilitation Tasks.- Chapter 2: A Cable-Robot System for Promoting Healthy Postural Stability and Lower-Limb Biomechanics in Gait Rehabilitation.- Chapter 3: Designing a Robotized System for Rehabilitation Taking Into Account Anthropological Data of Patients.- Chapter 4: Design Optimization and Dynamic Control of a 3-d.o.f. Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation.- Chapter 5: Novel design of the ParReEx-elbow parallel robot for the rehabilitation of brachial monoparesis.- Chapter 6: Development of a New Knee Endoprosthesis and Finite Element Analysis of Contact Stresses.- Chapter 7: Observer based sliding mode control for a knee exoskeleton.- Chapter 8: Design and motion simulation of a new exoskeleton leg mechanism.- Chapter 9: Use of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in a Passive Upper Body Exoskeleton.- Chapter 10: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with artificial neural network for pre- carbonization detection in laserosteotomy.- Chapter 11: Development and Evaluation of a Force-Sensitive Flexure-Based Microgripper Concept.- Chapter 12: Universal Mechanical Interface for Surgical Telemanipulation using Conventional Instruments.- Chapter 13: Volume Rendering-based Patient Registration for Extended Reality.