19 Computer Vision News setup, you’re going to do experiments, and everything is working perfectly, and I don’t know why, the next day you can’t run any experiments. The cameras, the sensors, and the robots aren’t working. You have to calibrate the system from scratch. The students say, “Why? Yesterday, everything was functional, and why is it like this today?” I’m trying to be patient and say that these things can always happen, and tomorrow will be another day, and you will solve all the problems and debug everything. I am sure you sometimes use other words, like “Stupid robot!” [Maria laughs] No – actually, I’m trying to think. Robots are very intelligent. We can transfer our intelligence to the robots, which is a very useful thought, and it helps me to be fair about the robot. I’m trying to think that, okay, it’s like an equal agent. We’re interacting in a very equal way. I’m trying to be polite and think very positively! You sometimes try to teach the robot again and again, but it still does not work. If I could give you a magic wand, what kind of manipulation or action would you choose to be successful? Okay, so for the last almost three years, I was working in a lab of IIT in Italy, particularly focused on medical robotic applications. I saw from the inside how important this field is. I think this is kind of the future. It’s very important to have intelligent robotic systems applied to surgical applications and be able to perform surgery in a safe and precise way and not be particularly dependent on human interventions. For example, I was trying to develop smart medical devices for intravenous access. This is an intelligent device with which you can perform this very common but also difficult intervention for blood examination and delivering drugs into veins. It has quite a high percentage of failures, especially in kids, and you can have a very bad experience with it, especially in children or elderly people who may have hard veins, and then you need to do it again and again. In this situation Maria Koskinopoulou
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