Views from Washington: NIH’s Priorities in Robotics

GRACE C.Y. PENG, PhD

Wearable Robots

CONOR WALSH, PhD

Grace C.Y. Peng, PhD, is Program Director at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her program areas include mathematical modeling, simulation and analysis methods, and next generation engineering systems for rehabilitation engineering and surgical systems. In 2003, Peng led the creation of the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG), which now consists of program officers from 10 agencies of the U.S. government and Canada. IMAG coordinates the Multiscale Modeling Consortium. Also in 2003, Peng led the creation of the NIH Neuroprosthesis Group. Through Peng, the NIBIB leads the NIH effort for the National Robotics Initiative (NRI). Peng is interested in promoting the development of intelligent tools and reusable models, and integrating these approaches in engineering systems and multiscale physiological problems.

Conor Walsh, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. He is the founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, which brings together researchers from the engineering, industrial design, medical, and business communities to develop smart medical devices and translate them to industrial partners in collaboration with the Wyss Institute’s Advanced Technology Team. Walsh’s research projects focus on wearable robotics to assist the disabled and able-bodied, as well as tools for minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of disease. His educational interest is in the area of medical device innovation where he mentors student design teams on projects with clinicians in Boston and emerging regions such as India.

Technologies for More Accurate, Less Invasive Robotic Surgery

ROBERT J. WEBSTER III, PhD

Keynote Speaker

Robert J. Webster III, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University and Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Webster currently directs the Medical and Electromechanical Design Laboratory at Vanderbilt. Webster's research interests include medical robotics, image-guided surgery, continuum robotics, and human-machine interfaces for surgical training and/or teleoperation. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2011, and an IEEE Volz award for his PhD thesis’s impact on the field of robotics.

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I N T R O D U C T I O N : Co-Leaders:

Henrik Christensen, PhD, Georgia Tech;

Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD, BIDMC, Harvard

S E S S I O N 1 : M I C R O R O B O T I C S

Frontiers in Microrobotics;

Paolo Dario, PhD, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

Technologies for More Accurate, Less Invasive Robotic Surgery;

Robert J. Webster III, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Micromechatronic Catheters for Percutaneous Interventions;

Pierre Dupont, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard

Roundtable Discussion

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S E S S I O N 2 : H U M A N - M A C H I N E S Y S T E M S

Quality of Life Technologies; Takeo Kanade, PhD, Carnegie Mellon

Wearable Robots; Conor Walsh, PhD, Wyss Institute, Harvard

Socially Assistive Robots That Care; Maja Matarić, PhD, University of

Southern California

Roundtable Discussion

S E S S I O N 3 : R O B O T I C S I N P R A C T I C E :

R E A L I Z I N G C L I N I C A L L Y M E A N I N G F U L A D V A N C E S

Challenges in Robotic Abdominal Surgery; A. James Moser, MD, BIDMC, Harvard

Barriers to Robotic Cardiac Surgery; T. Sloane Guy, MD, Temple University

Transoral Robotic Surgery for Head and Neck Cancer; Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD,

University of Pittsburgh

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K E Y N O T E :

VIEWS FROM WASHINGTON: NIH’S PRIORITIES IN ROBOTICS Grace Peng, PhD, NIBIB, NIH

3 : 4 5 - 4 P M C O N C L U D I N G R E M A R K S : Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD

Co-Leader

HENRIK I. CHRISTENSEN, PhD

Elliot L. Chaikof, MD, PhD, is Chairman of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, a member of the Wyss Insti-tute of Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University, and a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Chaikof’s basic research interests lie at the interface of medicine and engineering. Leading collaborative research efforts with clinicians, engineers, and biologists, Chaikof has designed new strategies that have advanced the development of engineered living tissues, implantable devices, and artificial organs, as well as cell-based therapies, which have helped to define the evolving field of regenerative medicine. Chaikof is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and the recipient of the 2013 Clemson Award for Applied Research from the Society for Biomaterials.

Henrik I. Christensen, PhD, is Director of the Robotics Program, holds the KUKA Chair in Robotics, and is Director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Institute of Technology. His main research interests include human-centered robotics, sensory/data fusion, and systems integration. Christensen has contributed more than 300 publications within the fields of robotics, vision, and artificial intelligence, including nine books. He currently serves on the editorial board of five journals in robotics and artificial intelligence. He is the editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends in Robotics. Christensen received the Engelberger Award in 2011, and received the Boeing Supplier of the Year 2011 award with three other colleagues at Georgia Tech. He has been named Senior Technical Expert at IEEE, elected Secretary of the International Foundation of Robotics Research, and is senior technical lead (CTO) of the Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC), and a board member of the Robot Industry Association (RIA) and the College Industry Council of Handling Material Education (CICHME). He is also the founder of the NSF Robotics Virtual Organization (Robotics-VO).

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Co-Leader

ELLIOT L. CHAIKOF, MD, PhD

Frontiers in Microrobotics

PAOLO DARIO, PhD

Micromechatronic Catheters for Percutaneous Interventions

PIERRE DUPONT, PhD

Paolo Dario, PhD, is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy. Dario teaches courses on biomedical robotics at the SSSA, and medical robotics at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa. Dario is Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, and Tianjin University, China. He has been Visiting Professor and Researcher at many universities, including the Colle ge de France and Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Dario is the Founding Director of the Center of Micro-BioRobotics@SSSA of the Italian Institute of Technology. He is also the editor of two books on robotics, and the author of more than 500 scientific papers. Dario is an IEEE Fellow, and served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is also a Fellow of the European Society on Medical and Biological Engineering, a member of the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research, and served as Vice-President of the International Society for Gerontechnology. He is the recipient of the Joseph Engelberger Award for Pioneer Research in Biomedical Robotics.

Pierre Dupont, PhD, is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Boston Children’s Hospital and Visiting Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His research group develops robotic instrumentation and imaging technology for minimally invasive surgery. Specific topics of interests include the design and control of novel medical robots and instruments, modeling tool-tissue interaction, the development of multi-probe or multi-modal imaging techniques for surgical guidance, and the teleoperation or automation of instrument motion. Dupont is an IEEE Fellow and winner of the 2010 King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Transoral Robotic Surgery for Head and Neck Cancer

UMAMAHESWAR DUVVURI, MD, PhD

Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Center for Robotic Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Duvvuri has special interests in treating both benign and malignant tumors, and in minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery of the head and neck. Duvvuri’s research interest is molecular imaging techniques to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with head and neck cancer.

Barriers to Robotic Cardiac Surgery

T. SLOANE GUY, MD, MBA

T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA, is Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Temple University Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine. Guy developed a successful clinical program in robotic cardiac surgery and research in telemedicine, robotics, and simulation at San Francisco VA Medical Center at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center prior to going to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. Guy is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Pennsylvania Thoracic Society Research Award and the U.S. Surgical Corporation Surgical Resident Scholar Award. He was also awarded a Bronze Star.

Takeo Kanade, PhD, is the founding and former Director of the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center and the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Kanade served as Director of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute from 1991 to 2001, and was founding Director of the Digital Human Research Center in Tokyo. Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics including computer vision, multimedia, manipu-lators, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics, and sensors. He has written more than 400 technical papers on these topics, holds more than 20 patents, and has been the principal investigator of more than a dozen vision and robotics

Socially Assistive Robotics That Care

MAJA J. MATARIĆ , PhD

Maja J. Mataric , PhD, is Professor and Chan Soon-Shiong Chair in Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at University of Southern California (USC), and founding Director of USC’s Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems. She is Co-Director of the USC Robotics Research Lab and Vice Dean for Research in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Matarić is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, IEEE,

and a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Her research is aimed at endowing robots with the ability to help people, especially those with special needs. Her research involves developing human-machine interaction (and in particular human-robot interaction) methods for enabling technology-assisted diagnosis, assessment, intervention, and/or therapy.

Challenges in Robotic Abdominal Surgery

A. JAMES MOSER, MD

A. James Moser, MD, Executive Director of the Institute for Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Moser’s clinical and research activities are focused on caring for patients with pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis. He is a leader in complex, advanced robotic and minimally invasive surgical oncology, including pancreatic auto-islet transplantation. Moser also conducts translational research focused on validating predictive models of surgical risk and outcomes of patients with pancreatic cancer. Moser holds leadership roles in numerous professional societies and, in 2010, was named Researcher of the Year in pancreatic cancer research by the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

Quality of Life Technologies

TAKEO KANADE, PhD