<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you all!<br><br><div dir="ltr">Howie Choset, Professor<div>Robotics institute, Carnegie Mellon<br><div>412-268-2495. c<span style="font-size: 13pt;">hoset@cs.cmu.edu</span></div></div><div>http://Biorobotics.org</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 20, 2020, at 1:08 AM, John Michael Galeotti <jgaleotti@cmu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Yes indeed, congratulations!</span><br><span></span><br><span>Because Anthony’s system worked, we also managed to get our first ultrasound videos of the pigs today, barely in time before the governor’s announcement today! Many thanks to the Anthony & team, and to all the students in Howie’s and my labs who reengineered their systems on short notice while submitting 4 major conference papers on Tuesday. And special thanks to Nico in Howie’s lab, who finished pulling pieces together for us at our last moment. </span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks,</span><br><span>John Galeotti</span><br><span>(Please pardon any smartphone typos.)</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:36 AM, Artur Dubrawski <awd@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear Autonians,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab members led by</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Anthony Wertz and including Jim Leonard, Gus Welter, Jarod Wang, and Andrew Williams,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope of the DoD TRACIR project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before. But, we have implemented social distancing regime on Monday, putting the whole experiment at risk...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without being physically present on site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was needed in the process.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some similarity). But NASA staff their spacecraft with astronauts highly trained in operating their systems, the luxury Anthony and Team did not have.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Congrats Anthony and Team!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Artur</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><image.png></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></body></html>