Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.

Blue River Technology Inc.

Verb Surgical Inc.

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Dishcraft Robotics, Inc.

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Aga Medical Corporation

Kent M Anderson

Eric Christian Lange

Aurelien Bruneau

Thomas Andrew Carls

Matthew M Morrison

Jonathan M Dewey

Hai H Trieu

James Patrick Ostrowski

Fred J Molz, Iv

Thomas G Cooper

Anthony K McGrogan

Lee Kamp Redden

Jean Taylor

Edward William Jeffcott Pell

Kevin Ma

Roy K Lim

Eugene F Duval

Robert E Holop

Todd R Solomon

Paul Michael Birkmeyer

Abigail Elizabeth Soong

Pablo E Garcia Kilroy

Joan Savall

Karen Shakespear Koenig

Fred J Molz

Thomas W Brown

Eric M Gawehn

Jacob Conor Dooris

Allegra Shum

Jeffrey D Brown

Randall N Allard

Andrea Bajo

Brent Michael Nobles

Timothy Young Lee

Tommy Carls

David Q Larkin

Daniel O Adams

John C Oslund

Kurt Amplatz

Paul E Lilagan

Matt Glimsdale

Michael Ikeda

Derek Wise

Katrina Bell Sheehy

Jana Santer

Benjamin Ray Chostner

Stephen Morfey

Katherine Anderson

Charles J Scheib

Mark A Biasotti

Jose Luis Cordoba

John William Peake

Donald J Sun

Henry Keith Bonin, Jr

Taylor Joseph Cone

John D Pond, Jr

Christopher Grant Padwick

Chia-Chun Fu

Kenneth McAfee Peters

Edward Joseph Menard

John Durward Pond

Michael William Tschudy

Robert H Dyer

Shannon Marlece Vittur

Erik Ehn

Scott James Drapeau

Aurelian Bruneau

Henry Bonin

Brent Nobles

Thomas Ettore De Candia

Scott Nathaniel Bahl

Randall L Allard

Thomas Carts

David W Poley

Patrick Farrell Turner

Michael Allen Ferguson

Ole Stoklund

Fred J Iv Molz

Anthony K Mcgrogan

An immersive display for use in a robotic surgical system includes a support arm, a housing mounted to the support arm and configured to engage with a face of the user, at least two eyepiece assemblies disposed in the housing and configured to provide a three-dimensional display, and at least one sensor, wherein the sensor enables operation of the robotic surgical system, and wherein the support arm is actuatable to move the housing for ergonomic positioning.

Immersive three-dimensional display for robotic surgery

A surgical system includes a surgical instrument that is sensitive to backlash that would adversely affect the transmission of controlled torque and position to the surgical instrument. The surgical instrument is coupled to motors in a surgical instrument manipulator assembly via a mechanical interface. The combination of the mechanical interface and surgical instrument manipulator assembly have low backlash, e.g., less than 0.7 degrees. The backlash is controlled in the surgical instrument manipulator assembly. From the drive output disk in the surgical instrument manipulator assembly to the driven disk of the surgical instrument, the mechanical interface has zero backlash for torque levels used in surgical procedures.

Preloaded surgical instrument interface

Historical information is accessed that describes a previous state of a field, previous environmental conditions for the field, and previous farming machine actions performed in the field. A tank management model is applied to the historical information to determine expected weed densities within field portions and an amount of treatment fluid required to treat plants within the field. While the farming machine is treating plants in the field, current information describing a current state of the field is accessed. The tank management model is applied to the current information to determine updated weed densities within field portions not yet treated. The farming machine performs a modified plant treatment action based on the updated weed densities and a comparison of a remaining amount of treatment fluid within a tank of the farming machine and an updated amount of treatment fluid for treating plants within field portions not yet treated.

Dynamic tank management based on previous environment and machine measurements

A farming machine includes one or more image sensors for capturing an image as the farming machine moves through the field. A control system accesses the image(s) and creates a labelled three-dimensional point cloud representing the field. The control system identifies and treats plants based on the labelled point cloud. To do so, the control system applies pre-processing functions to the labelled point cloud to determine characteristics of the field and/or modify labels in the point cloud. Point clusters in the point cloud are identified as plants, crops, weeds, ground, etc., using the determined characteristics and modified labels. The control system derives feature values for the plants based on the determined characteristics and labels. If the feature value indicates that the plant should be treated, the farming machine actuates a treatment mechanism to treat the plant.

Extracting feature values from point clouds to generate plant treatments

A method including: recording a first image of a first field region; automatically treating a plant within the first region in-situ based on the first image; automatically verifying the plant treatment with a second image of the first region; and automatically treating a second region concurrently with treatment verification.

System and method for automated odometry calibration for precision agriculture systems

A treatment system for spraying treatment fluid onto plants in a field is described. The treatment system includes a highly configurable treatment mechanism including an array of nozzles and valve assemblies coupled into manifolds, and manifold assemblies. The manifolds of the manifold assemblies can be oriented in an open state or a nested state, the open state with no overlap between nozzles of adjacent manifolds and the nested state with overlap between nozzles of adjacent manifolds. The manifolds can have multiple configurations, examples of which include a tube manifold and an offset manifold. The nozzles of the system can have multiple configurations, examples of which include a tri-spray nozzle, a bar nozzle, a fan nozzle, and a deflected fan nozzle. The system can be controlled by a system controller which detects plant material and instructs a nozzle or combination of nozzles to spray treatment fluid.

Nozzle, valve, and manifold assembly for precision application of crop protectant

A surgical system uses a single entry port in a wide variety of surgeries. To insert multiple surgical instruments into a patient through a single entry port requires that the shaft of at least one of the surgical instruments be bent between the base of the surgical instrument and the point where the shaft contacts a channel in an entry guide. Each surgical instrument is positioned by an instrument manipulator positioning system so that when the shaft is inserted in a channel of the entry guide, any bending of the shaft does not damage the surgical instrument and does not inhibit proper operation of the surgical instrument.

Surgical system with variable entry guide configurations

A port placement guide may include a base, a member, and at least one tracking element. The base can be configured to couple to a surface of a patient at a preliminary port location for a robotic arm. The member can be coupled to the base and can comprise a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The at least one tracking element can be coupled to the member and can be configured to allow tracking of the member relative to the preliminary port location.

Robotic port placement guide and method of use

As a farming machine travels through a field of plants, the farming machine operates in a normal operational state to perform one or more farming operations. The farming machine detects an operational failure of a component of the farming machine using measurements obtained from one or more sensors coupled to and monitoring the farming machine. The operational failure of the component impacts performance of a first farming operation of the farming operations. The farming machine configures the farming machine to operate in a remedial operational state. In the remedial operational state, the farming machine diagnoses the operational failure of the component using the obtained measurements. In the remedial operational state, the farming machine selects a solution operation to address the operational failure of the component based on the diagnosis. The farming machine performs the determined solution operation.

Compensatory actions for automated farming machine failure

A modular system includes a hub and a set of modules removably coupled to the hub. The modules are physically coupled to the frame relative to each other so that each module can operate with respect to a different row of a field. An individual module includes a sensor for capturing field measurement data of individual plants along a row as the modular system moves through the geographic region. An individual module further includes a treatment mechanism for applying a treatment to the individual plants of the row based on the field measurement data before the modular system passes by the individual plants. An individual module further includes a computing device that determines the treatment based on the field measurement data and communicates data to the hub. The hub is communicatively coupled to the modules, so that it may exchange data between the modules and with a remote computing system.

Modular precision agriculture system

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Kent M Anderson