A blog dedicated to the news and achievements of the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab
The Raven surgical robot was featured in episode 5 of “Heartbeat”, NBC’s new medical drama. Check out the episode here.
Also, BRL’s spinoff company Applied Dexterity took Raven to NASA as a part of efforts to take the surgical robot to the International Space Station. Applied Dexterity talked about their visit here.
Now it’s Applied Dexterity’s turn to have the University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization highlight their ongoing work! The UW C4C wrote an extensive article about the Raven open-source ecosystem and how it’s enabling new surgical robotics research. The full article is linked here
IEEE Pulse, a magazine put out by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, wrote a great article detailing the past, present and future of the Raven surgical robot!
The Raven II robot of UW EE’s BioRobotics Lab has been in the spotlight on many occasions, from fulfilling an 11 year old’s wish experience through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, to becoming the first open-source platform for surgical robotics research for seven universities across the country. But Hollywood? More at UW EE