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THE FUTURE IS NOW. "At the BMW Group’s Spartanburg site, the future has already begun: In door assembly, people and robots work side by side – without a safety fence – in one team. US plant Spartanburg is the first BMW Group production facility worldwide that has succeeded in implementing direct human-robot cooperation in series production." https://lnkd.in/dCdRRjc 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

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

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

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

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 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

CELLULAR SURGERY. “Robot cooperation for particles manipulation under microscope. With application in single cell surgery, cell measurements, cell enucleation and tissue engineering, robotic manipulation of micron scale biological samples is a challenging operation which requires high dexterity and precision.“ https://lnkd.in/eGPs6Ua View in LinkedIn

EXPLORATION of an unknown terrain using small multiple coordinated robots. https://lnkd.in/efkmnKk View in LinkedIn