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SUMMARY:ME 250 Seminar Series: Dr. Jacob Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Medical Robotics – Retrospective\, Introspective\, and Prospe
 ctive Views and Impact on Human Health\n\nJacob Rosen\, Ph.D.\, Bionics La
 b\, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\, University of Cal
 ifornia\, Los Angeles\n\nAbstract\n\nOver the past three decades\, medical
  robotics has evolved from an engineering endeavor and proof of concepts i
 nto a transformative clinical technology\, reshaping how surgeons operate 
 inside the human body and how patients recover function after neurological
  injury. This talk offers a retrospective\, introspective\, and prospectiv
 e examination of two intertwined branches of the field—surgical robotics
  and rehabilitation robotics—drawing on more than 30 years of research\,
  in part\, conducted at the Bionics laboratory and on parallel advances ac
 ross the international research and commercial communities.\n\nThe retrosp
 ective portion traces the trajectory from the earliest laparoscopic-assist
  systems of the late 1990s through the commercial dominance of master–sl
 ave teleoperated platforms\, and from rudimentary passive motion devices t
 o the emergence of multi-degree-of-freedom exoskeletons for upper- and low
 er-limb rehabilitation. I will revisit foundational contributions includin
 g the Raven open-architecture surgical platform\, which catalyzed academic
  research in teleoperated and cooperative surgery\, and the EXO-UL series 
 of bilateral upper-limb exoskeletons\, which established quantitative fram
 eworks for understanding bimanual motor recovery following stroke.\n\nThe 
 introspective portion turns a critical lens on the field's current state. 
 Despite remarkable clinical adoption\, fundamental questions remain unreso
 lved: How do we quantify the true clinical benefit of medical robotic beyo
 nd surrogate metrics? What are the challenges facing medical robotics in d
 emonstrating consistent superiority over conventional treatment? \n\nThe p
 rospective portion looks forward to the next decade. I will argue that med
 icine in general goes through a revolution that is equivalent to the indus
 trial revolution which are both sharing in common automation in in its mod
 ern version autonomous operation as a key function to provide high quality
  healthcare to a growing population under economic constrains. This effort
  give rise to a new generation of semi-autonomous and potentially full aut
 onomous systems—surgical robots capable of context-aware assistance and 
 rehabilitation robots that adapt continuously to a patient's neuromuscular
  state. \n\nTaken together\, these perspectives outline a coherent vision 
 in which medical robotics serves not as a replacement for clinical experti
 se but as a powerful amplifier of human capability—extending the reach o
 f the surgeon\, accelerating recovery for the patient\, and ultimately bro
 adening access to high-quality care across diverse populations and care se
 ttings.
LOCATION:Winston Chung Hall\, 205/206
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