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DECLARATIONS
Acknowledgments
Robin Heart Project was supported by KBN 8 T11E 001 18 and projects: PW-004/ITE/02/2004, R1303301
and R13 0058 06/2009, and NCBR - the national Centre for Research and Development - grants: R1303301
and R13 0058 06/2009, Robin PVA - no 178576,TeleRobin - no 181019 and many sponsors. The project
of flexible tool supported in part by the European Commission within the STIFF-FLOP FP7 European
project FP7/ICT-2011-7-287728 and grants of the ENIAC “INCITE” project No.621278 supported the
force-feedback achievements. Currently the author is a partner of Digital Innovation Hubs in Healthcare
Robotics HERO H2020 /825003.

Authors’ contributions
The author contributed solely to the article.

Availability of data and materials
Not applicable.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was done as part of my duties to disseminate knowledge about the possibilities offered by robot
technologies for medicine supported by the EU project Digital Innovation Hubs in Healthcare Robotics
HERO H2020/825003.

Conflicts of interest
The author declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
Not applicable.

Consent for publication
Not applicable.

Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020.

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