Far from being an "easy out" for autonomy, teleoperating robots has a range of unique challenges, but enables impressive real-world capabilities nonetheless
Surgical robots are actually fairly common! But I think medical is a somewhat conservative field (for good reason) with lots of compliance requirements and doctors have been trained in specific ways to use them. Intuitive has sold almost 10k Da Vinci robots which is a lot for how expensive they are.
Yeah for now everything is local. And they just train on the da vincis a lot. Humans are very good at tasks - if we practice with something enough, even an unintuitive system will become intuitive
Another example, quite old, are teleoperated surgical robots. Why do you think they didn't take off and are ubiquitous, yet?
Surgical robots are actually fairly common! But I think medical is a somewhat conservative field (for good reason) with lots of compliance requirements and doctors have been trained in specific ways to use them. Intuitive has sold almost 10k Da Vinci robots which is a lot for how expensive they are.
Thx for you response, Chris.
I didn't know they already sold 10k Da Vincis. Very impressive.
Why did they not encounter the issues with teleoperation described in the blog post?
Because everything happens locally?
I assume they also have very customized user input devices.
Yeah for now everything is local. And they just train on the da vincis a lot. Humans are very good at tasks - if we practice with something enough, even an unintuitive system will become intuitive