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Vanderbilt University

This Project Aims to Create a Full Set of Modular Tools for Autonomous Robotic Surgery as Well as the Perceptual Capabilities and Logical Framework to Integrate Them Into Full Procedures. the Team Has Divided Surgical Procedures Into Seven Core Tasks Retraction Resection Hemostasis Proprioception Debridement Palpation and Suturing. the Team Then Creates a Logical Framework That Defines Procedures in Terms of These Seven Basic Tasks and Allows the Robot to Progress From One Task to Another. as the Robot Carries Out a Procedure It Not Only Assesses Completeness of the Subtask But Also Its Own Uncertainty Allowing It to Request Human Surgeon Intervention When Uncertainty Is High. the Program Culminates With Two Demonstrations of Autonomous Robotic Surgery.

Committed

$8.5 Million

Paid out
$6.5M
77%
Committed, not yet paid
$2.0M
23%

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