The Raven-II is a platform for collaborative research on advances in surgical robotics. Seven
universities have begun research using this platform. The Raven-II system has two 3-DOF …

Suturing is an acquired skill which is based on a surgeon's experience. To date, no two
sutures are the same with respect to the type of knot, tension, or suture material. With …

The concept of traditional farming is changing rapidly with the introduction of smart
technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT). Under the concept of smart agriculture …

Applications of robotic systems have had an explosive growth in recent years. In 2008, more
than eight million robots were deployed worldwide in factories, battlefields, and medical …

The ability to support surgical care in an extreme environment is a significant issue for both
military medicine and space medicine. Telemanipulation systems, those that can be …

In the same way Internet standards have connected heterogeneous computing systems, we
predict robot communication standards will speed research and development of …

Despite the great diversity of teleoperator designs and applications, their underlying control
systems have many similarities. These similarities can be exploited to enable inter …

For decades surgery and robotics were progressing along two parallel paths. In surgery,
minimally invasivesurgery (MIS) revolutionized the way a significant number of surgical …

Methods and systems for securing remotely-operable devices are provided. A security
device can receive a plurality of commands to control a remotely-operable device in a …

Selection in organizations not only includes making critical decisions about which applicants
will be hired but also encompasses many other human resource decisions, such as …