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Bionics Lab › Goals & Mission The Bionics Lab at UCLA is a research group aiming to develop science, technology, and human resources at the interface between robotics, biological systems, and medicine. The goal is to produce useful, innovative research and technology as well as trained researchers fluent in both science, engineering, biological systems, and robotics. The primary research fields of the Bionics Lab are medical robotics and biorobotics including surgical robotics, and wearable robotics as they apply to the following fields: control, human motor control, neural control, human and brain machine interfaces, motor control rehabilitation (stroke), brain plasticity, haptics, virtual reality, teleoperation, biomechanics (full body kinematics and dynamics as well as soft/hard tissues biomechanics). Research in these fields is conducted as part of a collaboration efforts with the UCLA medical school – CASIT (Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology) as well as other medical schools such as UCSF and University of Washington. Principal Investigator / Lab Director : Jacob Rosen Research Wearable Robotics - Exoskeletons Robotic systems that are worn by the human operator as an orthotic devices and used as a human-amplifier, assistive device, haptic device, or for automatic physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Upper Limb Exoskeleton Lower Limb Exoskeleton Muscle Modeling Kinematics & Dynamics of the Upper Limb Surgical Robotics Robotic devices enabling the surgeon to learn and perform minimally invasive and open surgery safely and effectively. Surgical Robotics - Design, Development & Integration Telesurgery / Teleoperation Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Tissue Damage Surgical Task Decomposition Objective Assesment of Surgical Skills Multidimensional Topics A cluster of research and educational efforts in Bioengineering, and Biomedical Engineering with a special focus on the human machine interface. Haptics Central Venous Catheter - Training Program Virtual Reality - Gaming Orthopedic Implants Hidden Markov Model Toolbox for Matlab Bionics - Definition Wikipedia Bionics (also known as biomimetics, biognosis, biomimicry, or bionical creativity engineering) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. The word "bionic" was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the Greek word "βίον", pronounced "bion", meaning "unit of life" and the suffix -ic, meaning "like" or "in the manner of", hence "like life". Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed from " bio logy" + "electro nics ". Marriam-Webster bi·on·ics, Pronunciation:\bī-ä-niks\; Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction ; Etymology: 2bi- + -onics (as in electronics ), Date: 1960; Definition : a science concerned with the application of data about the functioning of biological systems to the solution of engineering problems. News BioRobotics - An Overview of the Bionics at UCLA By Diana Wehmeier / Judit Agui / Katinka Schuett Wear a Robot – Strike Stroke - TEDx Palo Alto 2018 Togather with: Frederick Schwedner, Yang Shen, and Ji Ma April 2018 MAE Professor Jacob Rosen delivered his talk entitled “Wear a Robot – Strike Stroke” at TEDx Palo Alto 2018. The talk covered his personal journey in science, exploring principles such as symmetry and redundancy and their application in human body motion, the implication of stroke on the motor control system, and his scientific efforts in developing upper limb exoskeleton systems to recover the motor control of stroke patients using dual arm modes. In these modes, both the arm affected by stroke as well as the arm that was unaffected are involved in the physical therapy, while the wearable exoskeleton system provides assistance as needed – as the patient interacts with virtual objects in virtual worlds. A dual arm physical therapy engages the left and the right hemispheres simultaneously while maximizing brain plasticity as part of the brain’s efforts to recover lost functions. The talk included a patient showing the audience the motor control implications of stroke and the physical disabilities associated with it, following by a demonstration of the dual arm exoskeleton as a system that can be incorporated into the physical therapy following stroke, and offers a paradigm shift in recovering lost motor control functions. UCLA Dept. of MAE Press Release This Scientist's Robots Might One Day Perform Surgery in Space UCLA's Dr. Jacob Rosen discusses his EXO-UL8 exoskeleton and Raven, a teleoperation system that could one day facilitate surgery for sick or injured space travelers By S.C. Stuart April 21, 2018 Robotics May Drive the Future of Healthcare Nov 3, 2017 By Katherine Kornei “The entire field of medicine is shifting from a human-based service provider to automation enabled by artificial intelligence (AI),” says Rosen. “This trend is promoted and enabled in part by robotic technology.” Rosen is quick to note that robots aren’t entirely replacing humans, however. “The human is still in the loop as a decision maker.” UCLA School of Engineering Press Release EXO-UL8 Dual Arm/Hand 8 DOF Upper Limb Wearble Exoskeleton EXO-UL8 robotic system is one of the most advanced dual arm wearable exoskeleton systems available today. It includes a total of 16 Degrees of freedom (DOF) – 8 DOF per arm (7 DOF arm & 1 DOF hand). The system is fully integrated and it is currently tested with various algorithms as a therapeutic modality for Stroke along with a set of virtual reality (VR) tasks. The VR tasks include both diagnostic tasks and therapeutic tasks. Surgical Robotics & Wearable Robotics Everting IoT (Internet of Things) Global Leadership Summit 2017 OCt. 11-12, 2017, Sydney Australia, Eitan Binstock (Organizer & Host) Roboscope the Surgical Cockpit and Automation in Neurosurgery, Canadian Neurosurgical Innovation Meeting, Toronto, ON Spt. 10-11, 2016 Dec. 2017 The paper co-authored by Joel Perry , Jacob Rosen , and Stephen Burns MD, and entitled "Upper-Limb Powered Exoskeleton Design" is listed by the IEEE/AMSE Transactions of Mechatronics and published on Oct. 13 2007 (IEEE Xplore) as one of the highly cited / popular papers (321 paper citations, 6 patent citations, 7665 full text views according to IEEE Xplore; 535 citations according to Google Scholar as of Dec. 2017). The paper was written together Dr. Rosne’s former graduate student Dr. Joel Perry, now a Professor at the University of Idaho, and his former colleague Dr. Stephen Burns, who is a professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the UW. The EXO-UL7 dual arm exoskeleton robotic system that was well ahead of its time both form the engineering, scientific and the medical perspective. Dr. Perry was Dr. Rosen’s Ph.D. student and this work in designing and studying the system serves as millstone in an evolving effort of integrating robotics into physical rehabilitation. This effort continues to evolve as now both Drs. and Rosen develop new systems. They along with other colleagues at the University of Idaho are collaborating on developing a new exoskeleton system which includes a dexterous multi fingers hand and more complex shoulder joint as part of a NSF award. Perry Joel C., Jacob Rosen, Stephen Burns, Upper-Limb Powered Exoskeleton Design, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume 12, No. 4, pp. 408-417, August 2007 PDF IEEE Xplore - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronic 2017 SoCal Robotics Symposium (SCR) - Best Poster Award Graduate students Sahba Pedram and Peter Ferguson along with post doc Ji Ma Ph.D. won the best poster award at the 2017 SoCal Robotic Symposium who was attended by students and faculty members from USC, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, CalTech, and JPL. This work is a result of an on going research efforts with Dr. Erik Dutson at the UCLA Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) and the Departme...