{"id":5028,"date":"2017-01-10T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2017-01-10T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:43:40","slug":"tech-tools-finding-purpose-retired-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/01\/tech-tools-finding-purpose-retired-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tools: Finding Purpose for Retired Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 355px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/01\/tech-tools-finding-purpose-retired-robots\/tech-tools-davinci\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6180\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tech-Tools-DaVinci-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"da Vinci Research Kit\" width=\"345\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tech-Tools-DaVinci-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tech-Tools-DaVinci.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: WILL KIRK\/HOMEWOODPHOTO.JHU.EDU AND SHUTTERSTOCK BACKGROUND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An open-source software and electronics kit created by a team of Whiting School faculty members, research engineers, and students for first-generation da Vinci surgical robots is in use at more than 25 research institutions around the world. Available on the internet via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jhu-dvrk\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>, the da Vinci Research Kit lets researchers implement novel control methods on retired clinical robot systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, research into more sophisticated control strategies was hampered by a lack of a robust common platform, leaving us to choose between building an expensive, one-of-a-kind system or using an overly simplistic platform that reduced research impact,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/computer-science\/faculty\/peter-kazanzides\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Kazanzides,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/computer-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">computer science<\/a> research professor who led the team that developed the kit. \u201cNow we don\u2019t have to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open-source software and electronics kit created by a team of Whiting School faculty members, research engineers, and students for first-generation da Vinci surgical robots is in use at more than 25 research institutions around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[119,1140,1144,1148],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","tag-department-of-computer-science","tag-da-vinci-research-kit","tag-peter-kazanzides","tag-robotics","issue-winter-2017"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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