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DTSTART;TZID="Pacific Time (US & Canada)":20261029T103000
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SUMMARY:The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Seminar Series, “From Haptic Guidance to Robotic Bronchoscopy: Designing Human–Robot Interfaces in Research and Industry” Presented by Dr. Julie Walker
LOCATION:Engineering Teaching Research Laboratory (ETRL), Pullman, WA
DESCRIPTION:From Haptic Guidance to Robotic Bronchoscopy: Designing Human–Robot Interfaces in Research and Industry\n\nPresented by Dr. Julie Walker, Software Engineering Manager, Ion Endoluminal System, Intuitive Surgical\n\nAbstract:\n\nRobots are increasingly working in collaboration with people. Designing these systems well requires understanding both the machine and the human using it. In this talk, I will share my path from academic research in haptics to developing surgical robotic interfaces in industry.\n\nIn the first part, I will present my Ph.D. research at Stanford on hand-held haptic interfaces that give intuitive, multi-degree-of-freedom guidance without external force grounding. The devices use gyroscopic effects, asymmetric vibrations, and skin deformation, and machine learning tunes the haptic guidance to each user. In the second part, I will discuss Intuitive's Ion endoluminal system, a robotic platform for minimally invasive biopsy of hard-to-reach lung tumors. My team brings together medical imaging, navigation algorithms and user interface design to guide physicians to reach their targets accurately. Finally, I’ll share lessons from moving between academia and industry and thoughts for students considering either path.\n\nBiography:\n\nJulie M. Walker is a Software Engineering Manager at Intuitive, where she leads a software team developing imaging, navigation, and user-interface features for the Ion endoluminal biopsy system. She joined Intuitive in 2020 as a navigation engineer, where she helped integrate intra-operative cone-beam CT imaging into Ion's lung navigation workflow. She received her Ph.D. (2020) and M.S. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, where she worked in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab under Professor Allison Okamura on hand-held haptic interfaces for multi-degree-of-freedom guidance. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in 2014. Her graduate work was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the Embassy of France.
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