关键词： RAMIE   robotic   esophagectomy   OESO   minimally invasive  

摘要： We present an update on robotic techniques and their advantages and use in esophageal cancer surgery. Recent work has shown tremendous progress in robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) and lymphadenectomy for esophageal cancer, as well as benefits of robotic surgery in high upper esophageal tumors and T4b disease. We discuss the different RAMIE techniques, especially for intrathoracic anastomosis. The ongoing ROBOT trial had demonstrated superiority of robotic esophageal cancer surgery over open esophagectomy. There are various putative technical advantages of RAMIE over minimally invasive esophagectomy, which need to be proven in future trials.

关键词： Smart materials   Swarm robotics   Autonomous robots   Artificial camouflage  

摘要： We present distributed algorithms for a swarm of static particles to camouflage in an environment by generating colored patterns similar to those perceived in the environment, mimicking the camouflage systems used by cephalopods. We assume each particle to be equipped with sensing, computation, and local communication abilities. For pattern recognition, each particle measures local color and brightness information, exchanges this information with its neighbors, determines local match with a library of patterns, and finally performs a consensus algorithm. For pattern formation, particles implement a distributed variant of Turing's pattern generator. Together, these algorithms enable the swarm to obtain a high-level understanding of its environment and to quickly adapt its appearance to changing environments. All algorithms are evaluated on a swarm of 64 miniature robots (Droplets) that can sense and change color, and exchange information using directed infrared communication. With required computation being minimal and communication exclusively local, the system serves as a blueprint for further miniaturization and work in biomimetic camouflage.

关键词： Ethics   Artificial intelligence   Service robots   Robots   Social implications of technology   Engineering education  

摘要： Discusses ways in which scientists and technologies should address the current and future use of artificial intelligence and robotics in the education system as well as its implications for both society and ethical considerations. We should very clearly spell out under what assumptions our technologies will or will not work. We must clarify the range of parameters for which the systems we build will be safe and reliable. Error analysis, robustness, and privacy guarantees should be the standards of such a system’s descriptions. Recently, I have observed that we’ve adopted quite a bit of marketing methodology instead of adhering to scientific clarity and sobriety. In the past, 50 years ago, academic presentations were strictly technical, and marketing was the preserve of business people. Today, perhaps we have gone to another extreme.

关键词： Industrial robots   Optical scanners   Mobile robots  

摘要： The article evaluates several robotics products including the RSL 400 safety laser scanner for automated guided vehicle (AGV) navigation from Leuze Electronic GmbH & Co. KG, 2F-85 and 2F-140 collaborative robot grippers for high-speed turning from Robotiq and MiR500 autonomous mobile robot for heavy lifting from Mobile Industrial Robots ApS.

摘要： Across the health care continuum, the delivery of care is undergoing dramatic changes, everything from where we deliver care to how we provide care. Emerging innovations and technologies are being positioned to disrupt not only health care, but also nursing practice. Incorporating new technologies into our care models will require us to become smart and agile change agents. As leaders, leveraging the opportunities for the adoption of innovation means that we need to fill our knowledge gaps, become more tech savvy and aware of conflict, and seek appropriate opportunities for disruption.(1)

关键词： Robots   Europe  

摘要： Reports on the Robotics Flagship project which aims to establish a new paradigm that merges biology, materials science, and AI to build learning and collaborative robots that are adaptable and can coexist with humans. It also attempts to design those robots so that they seamlessly integrate into the planet’s life cycle and preserve its resources, rather than consume them. Finally, the program intends to develop and propose new economic and social models for a world of intelligent robots, where social innovation complements and guides technological innovation.

关键词： Robotics  

摘要： Earth is 71% water, and the health and vigor of oceans and their endangered marine ecosystems have emerged as a pressing issue. The biggest challenges for ocean conservation are the enormous size and inaccessibility of these ecosystems: it is difficult to determine cause-andeffect relationships between small daily events (e.g., discarding plastic items) and global challenges (such as ocean pollution). Experimentation, data collection, preservation, and surveying come at great costs—with numerous dull, dangerous, and dirty tasks—making them prime candidates for robotics-based automated solutions. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Chapter at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CUICAR) sought to use this opportunity to shift more attention to this issue, generate innovative solutions, and enable and motivate the engineers of today and tomorrow.

关键词： Cloud robotics   Microservice   Container technology   Cloud computing   Intelligent space   Visual SLAM  

摘要： Cloud robotics (CR) is a red-hot branch of the burgeoning field of service robots that is centered on the benefits of integrating infrastructure and shared services via a cloud computing environment. Although it extends the computation power and information sharing capabilities of the network robots, the development and operations (DevOps) of the CR system are currently limited for enterprise-scale projects due to the heavy framework. In fact, current developed CR systems are typical distributed monomer architectures followed by a "top-down" design. As the scale of the applications gets larger, the operation and maintenance of CR systems will become a very difficult task. In this paper, a new architecture for a microservice-based cloud robotics system in intelligent space is proposed to solve the present dilemma. To enable this, we design a service management architecture based on a microservice to provide a highly efficient and flexible development/deployment mechanism. The container technology based on the docker engine is then used to functionally decompose the application into a set of collaborating services to ensure the software design methods, based on microservice, easy for implementation. Finally, a real experiment on SLAM (Simulation localization and mapping) in an intelligent space is implemented to verify the proposed architecture. Compared with traditional monomer architectures, the results show that the proposed framework is more productive, flexible and cost effective. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.