Giada Gerboni: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots
جيادا جيربونى: الإمكانات المذهلة للروبوتات المرنة
Giada Gerboni works in surgical robotics, supporting surgeons with new flexible robotic devices in order to make once impossible operations a reality. Full bio
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with minimal error,
ملايين المرات بأقل الأخطاء،
to watch them at work.
out of the factories,
من المصانع،
perfectly known and measured like here,
which doesn't require much precision,
you don't require much precision.
most of the time.
to emphasize speed and precision,
للتأكيد على السرعة والدقة،
into a very specific architecture.
set of rigid links
measure your environment,
program every movement
can generate a very large fault,
or you can get your robot damaged
أو الروبوت بأكمله
about the brains of these robots
something wrong with it,
precise and strong
and ineffective in the real world,
with the real world.
anything else around you.
really able to do anything if you're soft,
أن تفعلوا أي شيء إن كنتم لينين،
of hydrostatic pressure,
with a much stiffer object than him.
this coconut shell
of his tentacles,
an octopus can also open a jar.
just by the brain of this animal,
بفضل عقل هذا الكائن فقط،
maybe the clearest example,
that all living organisms have.
جميع الكائنات الحية.
material and structure,
during a physical task,
variety of situations
or calculations ahead.
some of this embodied intelligence
on excessive work
the strategy of nature,
she's done a pretty good job
for environment interaction.
uses soft material frequently
تستخدم المواد اللينة عادة
in this new field or robotics,
is not to make super-precise machines,
ليس صنع آلات عالية الدقة،
unexpected situations in the real world,
مواقف غير متوقعة في العالم الحقيقي،
is first of all its compliant body,
هو أولًا جسده الطيع،
that can undergo very large deformations,
we use what we call distributed actuation,
the shape of this very deformable body,
of having a lot of links and joints,
من الروابط والمفاصل،
any stiff structure at all.
a soft robot is a very different process
هو عمل مختلف للغاية
where you have links, gears, screws
حيث يوجد روابط وتروس و براغي
in a very defined way.
your actuator from scratch
to a certain input.
you can just deform a structure
يمكنكم هنا تغيير شكل بنية ما
with rigid links and joints,
باستخدام روابط صلبة ومفاصل،
some cool examples of soft robots.
على الروبوتات اللينة.
developed at Harvard University,
في جامعة (هارفارد)،
of pressure applied along its body,
he can also sneak under a low bridge,
a little bit different afterwards.
with power on board
and face real-world interactions
like a real fish does in water
مثل الأسماك الحقيقية في الماء
with distributed actuation
مع مشغلات موزعة
للتكنولوجيا.
of the first projects
of soft robots.
with several tentacles
and do submarine exploration
واستكشاف تحت الماء
than rigid robots would do.
environments, such as coral reefs.
مثل الشعاب المرجانية.
by my colleagues in Stanford.
it grows from the tip,
in firm contact with the environment.
by plants, not animals,
in a similar manner
variety of situations.
I like the most
a closer interaction with the human body
a minimally invasive procedure.
لإجراء عملية جراحية بأقل تدخل.
very helpful with the surgeon,
and straight instruments,
with very delicate structures
inside the surgical field
if you use a rigid stick,
باستخدام عصًا صلبة،
soft camera robot for surgery,
from a classic endoscope,
to the flexibility of the module
and also elongate.
to see what they were doing
from different points of view,
about what was touched around.
not a real human body.
inside your body.
can even be done using a single needle,
بواسطة إبرة واحدة،
on a very flexible needle,
على تطوير إبرة مرنة للغاية،
to use the interaction with the tissues
لاستغلال التفاعل مع الأنسجة
many different targets, such as tumors,
إلى أهداف عديدة، مثل الأورام،
the structure that you want to avoid
التي نرغب في تجنبها
exciting time for robotics.
في علم الروبوتات مثيرة للغاية.
with soft structures,
and very challenging questions
to learn how to control,
on these very flexible structures.
to what nature figured out
لما اكتشفته الطبيعة
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Giada Gerboni - Biomedical engineerGiada Gerboni works in surgical robotics, supporting surgeons with new flexible robotic devices in order to make once impossible operations a reality.
Why you should listen
Giada Gerboni is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab. Gerboni is working on the design and control of needle-sized flexible robots, work that aims to improve current percutaneous tumor ablation procedures. As she says: "One of the most exciting parts of this research is to enable surgical operations in ways that, not long ago, had not yet been conceived."
Gerboni received BE and MS degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa and a PhD in biorobotics from The BioRobotics Institute of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. During her PhD, she specialized in surgical robotics, studying and developing innovative strategies for the actuation and sensing of soft and flexible instruments for applications in MIS (Minimally Invasive Surgery).
A new branch of robotics, called "soft robotics," is expanding the boundaries of robotic applications. Soft robotics faces the grand challenge of increasing the capabilities of robots to make them more suitable for physical interactions with the real world. It involves use of soft and flexible materials, deformable sensors and very different control strategies than traditional robots, which are designed to work in well-defined and confined environments. Gerboni has been involved in this field from the time of her PhD, and since then she has been exploring its potential in the medical/surgical area, where safe robot-environment interaction is crucial.
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