The Raven II robot might not look like much, but it’s the cutting edge of surgery. A new program spearheaded by the National Science Foundation wants to push the envelope farther by distributing the ...

The Raven II robot runs on a PC running the Robot Operating System (ROS), which is open-source control software. The Raven communicates “with the control console using a standard communications ...

The people who design robots, unsurprisingly, are often into science fiction. That's why the folks behind the University of Washington's Raven II surgical robot were so psyched about their creation's ...

Robotics experts at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the ...

University of Washington students and researchers pose on the Ender’s Game set with Harrison Ford, director Gavin Hood and the “Raven II.” Photo courtesy of the University of Washington. If you happen ...

Computer engineer Jacob Rosen with a robotic surgery system in his UCSC lab. (Photo courtesy of Silicon Valley Business Journal) The Raven II surgical robot developed in Jacob Rosen’s Bionics Lab at ...

Robotics experts have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. Robotics experts at UC Santa Cruz and the ...