Article intro - SI in Science Robotics

Science Robotics dedicated an entire issue to Surgical Robotics: "Special Issue on Autonomy and AI in Medical Robots. Extending autonomous surgery from simple skills to complicated manipulation tasks is challenging because of the required precision and natural variability in patients. Kim et al. developed a language-guided imitation learning hierarchical framework that includes a high-level policy for task instructions and a low-level policy for trajectory planning and validated the system on ex vivo porcine cholecystectomy surgery. This month’s cover features an image of the end effectors of a surgical robot that autonomously completed the steps involved in the clipping and cutting portion of a cholecystectomy procedure. "

Science Robotics vol. 10 issue 104
Featuring:

• Pierre E. Dupont: Medical robots learn to be autonomous
• Pierre E. Dupont and Alperen Degirmenci: The grand challenges of learning medical robot autonomy
• Herman van der Kooij, Edwin H. F. van Asseldonk, Massimo Sartori, Chiara Basla, Adrian Esser, and Robert Riener:  AI in therapeutic and assistive exoskeletons and exosuits: Influences on performance and autonomy
• Lilu Liu, Jingyu Zhang, Fei Wang, Jiyu Yu, Yuxiang Cui, Zhibin Li, Jian Hu, Rong Xiong, Haojian Lu, and Yue Wang: AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration
• Samuel Schmidgall, Justin D. Opfermann, Ji Woong Kim, and Axel Krieger: Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery
•  Robin R. Murphy: Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope