1. Interface to Robots Breakout Group October 20, 2006 Peter Kazanzides Kevin Cleary John Kroon Grace Peng Hector Lopez Chris Hasser Dwight Yen Noby Hata John Haller

2. Main Challenges Infrastructure for rapid prototyping –To add image guidance to existing robots –To build research robots/applications Safety and validation –Addressing regulatory issues –Common phantom models Controlling commercial systems for research –Bidirectional (incl. image feedback to robots)

3. Industry/Academic Collaboration Open a dialogue with FDA about: –Use of open source software –Open architectures Standards for interfaces/architectures –Robots –Imaging devices (esp. 2D/3D US) Software toolkit for image guidance (beyond VTK and ITK) –Consolidation of efforts

4. Problem for next year Knowledge repository of off-the-shelf hardware components and toolkits List of clinical applications and benchmarks for image-guided robotics Software toolkit for image guidance (beyond VTK and ITK) –Functional specification –Identify initial contributors

5. Keywords Image-guided robotics, interventional devices, validation, benchmarks, performance, robotic surgery