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Welcome to the da Vinci Research Kit wiki community

Background

This wiki is home to users of the Research Kit for the da Vinci Surgical System. The Research Kit is a collection of first-generation da Vinci components that can be used to assemble a research platform for exploring telerobotics in medicine. The Kit contains the following components:

• Two da Vinci Master Tool Manipulators (MTMs)
• Two da Vinci Patient Side Manipulators (PSMs)
• A stereo viewer
• A foot pedal tray
• Manipulator Interface Boards (dMIBs)
• Basic accessory kit

See the system in action on YouTube (credit: the JHU team).

MTM

PSM

Stereo Viewer

Foot Pedal Tray

The User Group

University/Group:	PI	PI Email	PI URL	Group Wiki Page
The Johns Hopkins University	Professor Russell Taylor	rht-at-jhu.edu	[1] [2] [3]	JHU Group Page
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Professor Greg Fischer	gfischer-at-WPI.EDU	[4]	WPI Group Page
Stanford University	Professor Allison Okamura	aokamura-at-stanford.edu	[5]	Stanford Group Page
The University of British Columbia	Professor Tim Salcudean	tims-at-ece.ubc.ca	[6]	UBC Group Page
Vanderbilt University	Professor Nabil Simaan	nabil.simaan-at-vanderbilt.edu	[7]	Vanderbilt Group Page
University of California, Berkeley	Professor Pieter Abbeel	pabbeel-at-cs.berkeley.edu	[8]	Berkeley Group Page
University of California, Berkeley	Professor Ken Goldberg	goldberg@berkeley.edu	[9]	Berkeley Group Page
Carnegie Mellon University	Professor Howie Choset		[10]	CMU Group Page
Sick Kids Children's Hospital	Professor James Drake	james.drake-at-sickkids.ca	[11]	Sick Kids Group Page
SUNY, Buffalo	Professor Venkat Krovi	vkrovi-at-buffalo.edu	[12]	SUNY Group Page
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna	Professor Arianna Menciassi	arianna.menciassi-at-sssup.it	[13]	SSSA Group Page
University of Western Ontario & CSTAR	Professor Rajni Patel	rvpatel-at-uwo.ca	[14]	CSTAR Group Page
Seoul National University	Professor Sungwan Kim	sungwan-at-snu.ac.kr	[15]	Seoul National University
Obúda University	Adjunct Professor Tamás Haidegger	haidegger@irob.uni-obuda.hu	[16]	Obúda University
Wayne State University	Professor Abhilash Pandya	apandya@indigo.eng.wayne.edu	[17]	Wayne State University
University of Verona	Professor Paolo Fiorini	paolo.fiorini@univr.it	[18]	University of Verona
Imperial College	Professor Guang-Zhong Yang	g.z.yang@imperial.ac.uk	[19]	Imperial College
University College London	Professor Danail Stoyanov	danail.stoyanov@ucl.ac.uk	[20]	University College London
Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical, Children's National Health System	Professor Kevin Cleary	kcleary@childrensnational.org	[21]	Children's National Health System
Case Western Reserve University	Professor M. Cenk Cavusoglu	mcc14@case.edu	[22]	Case Western Reserve University
University of Naples Federico II	Professor Bruno Siciliano	siciliano@unina.it	[23]	University of Naples Federico II
Ben Gurion University of the Negev	Professor Ilana Nisky	nisky@bgu.ac.il	[24]	Ben Gurion University of the Negev
University of California San Diego	Assitant Professor Michael Yip	yip@ece.ucsd.edu	[25]	University of California San Diego
Politecnico di Milano	Professor Elena De Momi	elena.demomi@polimi.it	[26]	Politecnico di Milano
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Professor Philip WY Chiu	philipchiu@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk	[27]	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Associate Professor Samuel Au	samuelau@mae.cuhk.edu.hk	[28]	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
University of Leeds	Professor Pietro Valdastri	P.Valdastri@leeds.ac.uk	[29]	University of Leeds
University of Texas, Dallas	Professor Ann Majewicz Fey	Ann.Majewicz@utdallas.edu	[30]	University of Texas, Dallas

Wiki Content

• Documentation and Guides
• Design and Implementation Topics
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Publications
• User Group Meetings