Robot Coordinating its Base and Compliant Arm while Pulling Open Doors and Drawers
“Pulling Open Doors and Drawers: Coordinating an Omni-directional Base and a Compliant Arm with Equilibrium Point Control”. Advait Jain and Charles C. Kemp. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010 Details can be found: www.hsi.gatech.edu or www.hsi.gatech.edu Video taken in September 2009.
Read MoreMedical Robotics Bioports to the Human Body
Jacob Rosen [Prof. of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz] Abstract : Medical Robotics is an emerging sub-discipline of robotics in which humans are the focal point of its creation. Humans interact with medical robotics either as health providers such as physicians or as the healthcare recipients – the patients. Introducing a medical robot at the interface between a physician and a patient is based on an understanding of the medical treatment itself and its related biology, physiology and anatomy. Inherent to the field of medical robotics is a unique synergy between medicine, life and health sciences, and many sub-disciplines of engineering. In this talk, two categories of Medical robotics will be explored: surgical robotics and wearable robotics. The operating room of the future is envisioned as fully automated cell that includes only one human being – the patient. The local surgeon will be replaced by a surgical robot that will be teleoperated through wired and wireless communication, from any place around globe. The system will manage all the aspects of surgery, from monitoring the movements of the surgical robot to managing the supply chain. Achieving such a system depends on answering research questions such as what are the physical variables that lead to tissue damage; how to optimize the robotic arms to minimize their footprint in the operating room; how to objective assess surgical skill, and how to control the system from a distance to perform telesurgery. A …
Read MorePharmacy Robot St Mary’s Hospital
The pharmacy robot at St Mary’s Hospital. Isle of Wight.
Read MoreInternational Digital Lab – Virtual Surgery
The Informatics Group, led by Professor Vinesh Raja, has a mission to understand and extend the theory of data capture and extraction of information and wisdom with a particular focus in the engineering, manufacturing and healthcare sectors. informatics-virtual-reality Engineering informatics deals with customer requirements data and product lifecycle data; manufacturing informatics focuses on process data concerning factory design and layout, machining and assembly processes; whereas healthcare informatics is concerned with data fo demographics, patient records, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, remote healthcare monitoring, diagnosis, treatment planning and surgery planning. Current research projects include: * I*PROMS: flexible, re-configurable, fault-tolerant and eco and user-friendly manufacturing systems that can react to customer needs, environmental requirements, design inputs, and material/process/labour availability to manufacture high quality, cost-effective products. * INTUITION: virtual reality and virtual environments for future workspaces. * IWARD: a robot swarm delivering support to oversee activities in healthcare environments, providing a multipurpose, cost-effective and scalable solution to enhance the quality of healthcare. * PhD projects: modelling soft tissues for haptics applications such as virtual surgery; a virtual breast model for teaching breast examination to medical students and also for self examination by women; and developing a …
Read MoreRenke : DIGINFO
The medical container exchange robot system is a new attempt to fully automate the medical container exchange process by introducing robotic technology. In the past, this work was done manually. The articulated medical container exchange robot uses optimal cam curve control to achieve high precision turning and has a tight turning circle which allows it to accurately measure the distance between itself and obstacles or other people even in small manufacturing rooms. The robot can work up to 24 continuous hours, and depending on the situation, it can exchange medical containers in an unmanned process. As a result, work hours can be drastically cut and low-cost operations can be achieved.
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