Dr. Russell H. Taylor, John C. Malone Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Receives the Honda Prize 2015 for Contributions ...
September 28 2015 - 3:20AM
JCN Newswire (English)
The Honda Foundation, a public-interest incorporated foundation
created by Honda Motor's founder Soichiro Honda and his younger
brother Benjiro Honda and currently headed by Hiroto Ishida, is
pleased to announce that the Honda Prize 2015(1) will be awarded to
Dr. Russell H. Taylor for his tremendous contributions in the
development of medical robots, technological evolution in this
field, and producing highly skilled technical personnel. Dr. Taylor
is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, currently one of the
leading medical schools in the United States, and is also a
director of CISST ERC (Engineering Research Center for
Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology) and LCSR
(Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics). He has been
involved in technological evolution and fostering of personnel, and
remains active in this field as a leading figure. Dr. Taylor is the
36th laureate of the Honda Prize. The award ceremony will be held
at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on November 17, 2015. In addition to
the prize medal and diploma, the laureate will be awarded 10
million yen.
Dr. Taylor has been engaged in development of medical robots for 40
years-the field of medical robot was technically non-existent when
he started research-and has driven the field as a global leader for
the last three decades. In addition, Dr. Taylor is one of the
pioneers who established the field of robot research in the 1970's
and is one of the most renowned scientists in this field. He has
become widely known as the "father of medical robotics."
The hip replacement surgery assistant robot "ROBODOC," the
prototype of which was primarily developed by Dr. Taylor when he
was employed at IBM Watson Research Center, is the world's first
important surgical assistant robot which supported the surgical
process. Many of the concepts developed for ROBODOC were
subsequently incorporated in robotic systems for many different
surgical applications. Concurrently, Dr. Taylor also led
development of a surgical assistance system for craniofacial
surgery. This system was one of the first surgical navigation
systems for non-neurosurgical applications.
While still at IBM, Dr. Taylor also developed the Laparoscopic
Assistant Robotic System (LARS) which constantly displays the
surgical field at the center of a screen to be monitored by the
operator during laparoscopic surgery. Under the conventional method
in laparoscopic surgery, because a surgeon could not manipulate an
endoscope and adjust the surgical field on the screen to have the
optimal angle and perspective by him/her self, the surgeon needed
to rely on an assistant for the manipulation of the endoscope.
However, this system solved this problem by attaching a joystick to
the surgical instrument in order to enable the surgeon to
manipulate the endoscope by him/herself. By indicating the part
he/she wants to focus on within the surgical-field screen by using
the joystick, the computer controls the camera position powered by
the robot technology, thus the surgeon can constantly view the
surgical field on the screen in the desired way. During the
development of this system, mechanical safety was achieved by
adopting the Remote Center of Motion (RCM) mechanism and this
safety concept is also employed in the da Vinci computer-assisted
surgical system which has been adopted worldwide.
Furthermore, Dr. Taylor was among the first to spread the concept
of "Computer Integrated Surgery" (CIS) and "Surgical CAD/CAM" as
well as leading the field by organizing international conferences
on medical robotics and CIS such as Medical Robotics and Computer
Assisted Surgery (MRCAS), Medical Image Computing and
Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), and Information
Processing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI).
Established in 1980, the Honda Prize is awarded annually to an
individual or group to recognize accomplishments in the field of
ecotechnology(2), which works to advance human achievement while
concurrently preserving the natural environment. The concept of
computer-assisted (robotic) surgical system has brought about a
revolution in surgical methodology. It enables minimally invasive
surgery and realizes not only easing the patients' pain but also
shortening the hospitalization period as well as reducing medical
expenses.
In this manner, the evolution and further application of medical
robots will make the national medical economy more efficient and,
therefore, increase society's healthy and active population. As a
consequence, this is considered as contributing to the Honda
Foundation's goal-"Creating a truly humane civilization."
Therefore, the medical systems developed by Dr. Taylor and his
contributions in furthering the expansion and innovation of the
medical robotic field are considered appropriate for the Honda
Prize recognition.
(1) 1Honda Prize: Japan's first international science and
technology award inaugurated in 1980.
(2) Ecotechnology: Coined from "ecology"-the house of
civilization-and "technology." It has been put forward since 1979
as the guiding philosophy for a better symbiosis between
technology-driven civilization and nature.
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