We’ve been very busy at Applied Dexterity in 2014, and we’ll have a lot of news to share with you shortly. To whet your news appetite: we’ll be at ICRA in Hong Kong for the first week of June! We’ll have the RAVEN with us and we’re doing our best to have some cool new toys at our booth, too.

The RAVEN community will be presenting two papers as well. The first is UC Berkeley’s paper Autonomous Multilateral Debridement with the Raven Surgical Robot by Ben Kehoe et al. Ben and his labmates used stereo vision to find and remove simulated dead tissue (debridement). This work presents the automation of a surgically relevant sub-task as a stepping stone towards supervisory control of surgical robots.

Our roboticist, Andrew Lewis, will also be presenting his work on Dynamic Gravity Compensation on the RAVEN. Using an accelerometer on the base of the robot, Andrew implemented a simple and effective method to calculate induced gravity torques on the RAVEN and serial robots in general. The addition of this sensor improves control in any base orientation and any gravitational state.

We can’t wait to meet up with the robotics community at large again. And feel free to follow us on Twitter to get the latest AD and RAVEN happenings.