Grey Orange Pte. Ltd.

Boston University

Boston Medical Center Corporation

Fraunhofer Usa, Inc.

Daniel Echeverria

Andreas G Hofmann

Mathew Livianu

Akash Madhukar Patil

Sameer Narkar

Sumit Kumar Tiwary

Shawn Schaffert

Holger Wirz

Alexis Sauer-Budge

Andre Sharon

Anirudh Shekhawat

Vaibhav Tolia

Avilash Kumar

Andrew Kiruluta

Manish Soni

Andrew Lewis

Nikhil Sorout

Yuzhang Yang

Jamie Nichol

Anand Devaiah

Stephanus Johannes Marcellis Van Der Kemp

Robert Pitha

Disclosed herein is an aspiration assembly for attaching to an endoscope. The aspiration assembly comprises an extendable suction tube for aspirating an object (e.g., smoke, blood, blood clot, bone debris, or tissue debris) at or near a surgical site during an endoscopic surgery. The aspiration assembly can further comprise an irrigation tube for directing a fluid to the surgical site for cleaning the endoscope lens. By integrating an extendable suction tube with the endoscope, the technology described herein obviate the need for instrument switching and/or multiple surgeons during the surgery.

Retractable endoscopic suction tube

Spatula gripper

A control server controls a dual-arm robotic manipulator (DARM) for handling deformable objects in a stack. The control server receives a set of images of the stack captured by a set of image sensors, and determines a contour of the stack based the set of images. Based on the contour and historical data associated with the deformable objects in the stack, the control server determines a sequence of actions to be performed by the DARM for handling a first deformable object in the stack, and controls the DARM to handle the first deformable object by communicating a set of commands corresponding to each action in sequence of actions. The first deformable object is handled such that original form factors of the first deformable object and the remaining stack are maintained.

Method and system for handling deformable objects

Growing community of inventors

Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Daniel Echeverria