While executing a surgical procedure, surgeons not only rely on their specific medical knowledge but also on a set of skills that are “obvious” to them and allow for intuitively evaluating and reacting to the intervention evolution. Such skills belong to what is usually called common sense , which is essential to carry out an intervention. Although general common sense refers … [Read more...] about Opinion– Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems
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Toward Holistic Scene Understanding
The long-term vision for robotics is to have fully autonomous mobile robots that perceive the environment as humans do or even better. This article transfers the core ideas from human scene perception onto robot scene perception to contribute toward a holistic scene understanding of robots. The first contribution is to extensively survey and compare state-of-the-art robot scene … [Read more...] about Toward Holistic Scene Understanding
