This review examines the dichotomy between automatic and autonomous behaviors in
surgical robots, maps the possible levels of autonomy of these robots, and describes the …

Background It was suggested that the lack of haptic feedback, formerly considered a
limitation for the da Vinci robotic system, does not affect robotic surgeons because of training …

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) has become increasingly popular in the
resection of cancers. However, the lack of tactile feedback in clinical RMIS limits the …

Labor shortages in the United States are impacting a number of industries including the
meat processing sector. Collaborative technologies that work alongside humans while …

This letter presents the first implementation of autonomous robotic auscultation of heart and
lung sounds. To select auscultation locations that generate high-quality sounds, a Bayesian …

Ultrasound is a vital imaging modality utilized for a variety of diagnostic and interventional
procedures. However, an expert sonographer is required to make accurate maneuvers of …

The long-term goal of this work is to enable agents with low-information sensors to perform
tasks usually restricted to ones with more sophisticated, high-information sensing …

Information-based coverage directs robots to move over an area to optimize a pre-defined
objective function based on some measure of information. Our prior work determined that …

In this work, we develop an approach for guiding robots to automatically localize and find the
shapes of tumors and other stiff inclusions present in the anatomy. Our approach uses …

This paper develops a new approach to direct a set of heterogeneous agents, varying in
mobility and sensing capabilities, to quickly cover a large region, say for example in the …