#  Research 

 



  [### An AI Coach for Enhancing Teamwork in the Cardiac Operating Room

 ](/ai-coach-enhancing-teamwork-cardiac-operating-room)The goal of this multi-disciplinary project is to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled coaching system (AI Coach) for monitoring, assessing, and enhancing surgical teamwork in the cardiac operating room (OR).



 

 

   [### A Robot-Assisted Perfusion System to Improve Patient Safety in the Cardiac Operating Room

 ](/robot-assisted-perfusion-system-improve-patient-safety-cardiac-operating-room)The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a Robot-Assisted Perfusion System (RAPS) that learns from expert perfusionists in the cardiac operating room and can be integrated into the surgical workflow as a non-human teammate.



 

 

   [### A Novel Cognition-based Guidance System to Improve Surgical Safety

 ](/novel-cognition-based-guidance-system-improve-surgical-safety)The goal of this project is to develop novel approaches to using process and patient real-time data, and device status information dynamically and proactively to provide guidance forward from the current surgical state.



 

 

   [### Robotic Crawler for Epicardial Interventions

 ](/robotic-crawler-epicardial-interventions)This project aims to develop a semi-autonomous epicardial crawling robot (Heartlander) to enable image-guided minimally invasive treatment of heart failure.



 

 

   [### Articulated Robot for Epicardial Interventions

 ](/articulated-robot-epicardial-interventions)This project focuses on the development and evaluation of an innovative approach for performing minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) based on a highly articulated robotic probe (HARP).