Giada Gerboni: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots
Đada Gerboni (Giada Gerboni): Neverovatan potencijal fleksibilnih, mekih robota
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,
uz minimalne greške,
to watch them at work.
robote na delu.
out of the factories,
iznesete van fabrika,
perfectly known and measured like here,
i kontrolisano poput ovog,
which doesn't require much precision,
koji ne zahteva preciznost
you don't require much precision.
koliko morate da budete precizni.
most of the time.
to emphasize speed and precision,
brzinu i preciznost,
specifičnu arhitekturu.
into a very specific architecture.
set of rigid links
set krutih karika
measure your environment,
program every movement
svaki pokret
can generate a very large fault,
može da dovede do ogromne greške,
or you can get your robot damaged
ili oštetite robota samog
about the brains of these robots
na mozak robota
something wrong with it,
precise and strong
and ineffective in the real world,
i efikasnosti u stvarnom svetu,
with the real world.
sa stvarnim svetom.
o suprotnom pristupu,
anything else around you.
od bilo čega oko nas.
really able to do anything if you're soft,
da postignete ako ste previše meki,
of hydrostatic pressure,
hidrostatičkog pritiska,
with a much stiffer object than him.
koji su daleko tvrđi od nje.
this coconut shell
of his tentacles,
an octopus can also open a jar.
može otvoriti teglu.
just by the brain of this animal,
nije potreban samo mozak životinje,
maybe the clearest example,
najjasniji do sada,
that all living organisms have.
material and structure,
materijal i struktura
during a physical task,
tokom izvođenja nekog fizičkog zadatka
variety of situations
u različitim situacijama,
or calculations ahead.
i izračunavanja unapred.
some of this embodied intelligence
nešto od te otelotvorene inteligencije
on excessive work
na ekstenzivan rad
i očitavanje?
the strategy of nature,
možemo slediti strategiju prirode,
she's done a pretty good job
prilično zadivljujući posao
for environment interaction.
za interakciju sa okruženjem.
uses soft material frequently
često koristi meke,
in this new field or robotics,
novom polju robotike
is not to make super-precise machines,
ne izradu super-preciznih mašina,
unexpected situations in the real world,
se suoče sa neočekivanim situacijama
da izađu u taj svet.
is first of all its compliant body,
je upravo njegovo fleksibilno telo,
that can undergo very large deformations,
koji trpe velike deformacije,
we use what we call distributed actuation,
koristimo tzv. distribuirano pokretanje
the shape of this very deformable body,
nad oblikom ovog vrlo fleksibilnog tela,
of having a lot of links and joints,
mnogo karika i zglobova,
any stiff structure at all.
a soft robot is a very different process
mekog robota vrlo drugačiji posao
where you have links, gears, screws
gde postoje karike, zupčanici, zavrtnji
in a very defined way.
na vrlo definisan način.
your actuator from scratch
da samo napravite pokretač
to a certain input.
zadatim parametrima.
you can just deform a structure
with rigid links and joints,
sa krutim karikama i zglobovima,
some cool examples of soft robots.
meke robote.
developed at Harvard University,
na univerzitetu Harvard,
pritiska duž njegovog tela,
of pressure applied along its body,
robot može da se kreće ispod niskog mosta,
he can also sneak under a low bridge,
a little bit different afterwards.
malo drugačije nakon toga.
with power on board
sa pokretačkom snagom
sa stvarnim svetom,
and face real-world interactions
pored ili preko njega...
like a real fish does in water
poput prave ribe u vodi
with distributed actuation
sa distribuiranim pokretanjem
of the first projects
meke robotike.
of soft robots.
sa nekoliko pipaka
with several tentacles
i istražuje podvodni svet
and do submarine exploration
than rigid robots would do.
environments, such as coral reefs.
okruženja poput koralnih grebena.
by my colleagues in Stanford.
kog su razvile moje kolege sa Stanforda.
it grows from the tip,
raste sa vrha,
in firm contact with the environment.
sa okruženjem.
od biljaka, ne životinja,
by plants, not animals,
in a similar manner
na sličan način,
raznim situacijama.
variety of situations.
da sam biomedicinski inženjer,
I like the most
a closer interaction with the human body
bližu interakciju sa ljudskim telom
minimalno invazivne procedure.
a minimally invasive procedure.
very helpful with the surgeon,
od velike pomoći hirurgu,
and straight instruments,
with very delicate structures
sa vrlo delikatnim strukturama
inside the surgical field
u oblast koju operiše,
se koristi krut štap,
if you use a rigid stick,
soft camera robot for surgery,
za operaciju,
from a classic endoscope,
od klasičnog endoskopa,
fleksibilnom modulu
to the flexibility of the module
and also elongate.
a takođe se može izdužiti.
to see what they were doing
kako bi videli šta rade
from different points of view,
sa drugačijim uglom gledanja,
about what was touched around.
not a real human body.
ne pravo ljudsko telo.
inside your body.
can even be done using a single needle,
samo jednom iglom,
on a very flexible needle,
na vrlo fleksibilnoj igli,
za interakciju sa ovim tkivima
to use the interaction with the tissues
many different targets, such as tumors,
različitim tačkama poput tumora,
the structure that you want to avoid
strukture koju želite da izbegnete
exciting time for robotics.
uzbudljivo vreme za robotiku.
with soft structures,
strukture,
izazovna pitanja
and very challenging questions
to learn how to control,
kako da upravljamo,
on these very flexible structures.
na ove fleksibilne strukture.
to what nature figured out
što je priroda shvatila
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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