Month: September 2022

SURGICAL BOTS. "Last year the Journal for Healthcare Quality reported that 41% of hospital websites advertised robotic surgery; of these, 37% did so on their homepage. Hospitals with robots are pulling in more and more patients, and in some cases, the existence of the robot actually increases the number of surgeries performed." https://lnkd.in/em6ceVf View in LinkedIn

SURGICAL INFLECTION POINT. "A study conducted by the American Cancer Society found that the number of radical prostatectomies has “risen substantially” in the past decade, and patients travel great distances to be operated on with a robot. Today, four out of five prostatectomies are performed with a robot. The result is an industry at an inflection point." http://fortune.com/2013/01/15/meet-your-next-surgeon-dr-robot/ View in LinkedIn

SURGICAL ROBOTS. "da Vinci. Patented and manufactured by Intuitive Surgical ISRG 0.59% — a publicly held Silicon Valley–based company that posted revenue of $1.76 billion, a 24% increase over 2010 — the system costs up to $2.3 million." http://fortune.com/2013/01/15/meet-your-next-surgeon-dr-robot/ View in LinkedIn

THE GOAL. "The ultimate in robotic surgery would be the integration of daVinci-style surgical robots with telemedicine technologies that enable medical professionals to consult, assist, supervise, or train their counterparts in distant locations." https://lnkd.in/esfXuij View in LinkedIn

TELE-ROBOTIC SURGERY. "The first trans-Atlantic robotic surgery took place in September 2001, when teams of fiber-optically linked surgeons in New York and Strasbourg, France, robotically removed the gall bladder of a 68-year-old woman using robotic arms built by Computer Motion (later acquired by Intuitive Surgical)." https://lnkd.in/esfXuij View in LinkedIn

COLLABORATING BOTS. "For execution, composite actions and plans are shown to be learnt on one robot and executed successfully on a different one. Most importantly, the system provides the ability to link actions into shared plans, that form the basis of human–robot cooperation, applying principles from human cognitive development to the domain of robot cognitive systems." http://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/IEEE/Lall%C3%A9e_Towards_IEEETrans_2012_1569280.pdf View in LinkedIn

"IN THE FUTURE humans and robots will need to work together as heterogeneous teams to solve difficult problems." https://lnkd.in/gPfCJzP View in LinkedIn

NAVIGATION. "We consider mobile robot navigation in dense human crowds. In particular, we explore two questions. Can we design a navigation algorithm that encourages humans to cooperate with a robot?" https://lnkd.in/g3SrmnJ View in LinkedIn

SERVICE BOTS. "After a long dominance of industrial robots for manufacturing purposes, the world of robotics has been expanded to include service robots such as robotic lawn mowers or vacuum cleaners. More recently, a number of humanoid robots have been developed, such as the ASIMO that was created by the Honda Motor Company." https://lnkd.in/gPneEfA View in LinkedIn