Human Skills for Robots [SHAIL 2012]
Channel: Robohub
Date: 06/05/2013

In this talk, Tamás Haidegger from Budapest University of Technology and Economics tells us about surgical robots.

Almost 90 years ago, the idea of telesurgery was born, along with the initial concept of robots. From the early 1970s, researchers were focusing on robotic telepresence, to empower surgeons to treat patients at a distance. The first systems appeared over 20 years ago, and robotic surgery has quickly become a standard-of-care for certain procedures—at least in the USA. Over the decades, the control concept remained the same; a human surgeon guiding the robotic tools based on real-time sensory feedback. However, from the beginning of the development, the more exciting (and sometimes frightening) questions have been linked to machine learning, AI and automated surgery. In the true sense of automation, there have only been unclear reports of one single robotically planned and executed surgery so far, despite the fact that many research groups are working on the problem. This talk introduces the major efforts currently undertaken in centers of excellence around the globe to transfer the incredibly diverse and versatile human cognition into the domain of surgical robotics.

The ShanghAI Lectures (http://shanghailectures.org/) are a video conference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by Rolf Pfeifer and organized by Nathan Labhart and partners around the world. Recordings of these lectures and guest presentations are now made available on Robohub (http://robohub.org).