Sungyun Yang 1, Byung Ha Kang 1, Hyeongho Min 1, Juan P Wachs 2, Farshid Alambeigi 3, Jaydev P Desai 4, Pierre E Dupont 5, Kurt Yaeger 6, Katherine Anderson 7, Alan Kuntz 8, Ron Alterovitz 9, Robert J Webster 3rd 10, Nobuhiko Hata 11, Janani S Reisenauer 12, McKenna Clinch 13, Alex Abramson 4,13,14, Jie Ying Wu 8, Tommaso Ranzani 15, Peter C Kim 16,17, Alex S Huang 18, Cheng Sun 19, Hao F Zhang 20, Cameron N Riviere 21, Eric R Henderson 22, Michael Yip 23, Xiaoguang Dong 10,24,25, Daniel A Wollin 26, David H Gracias 27,28,29,30, Lamar O Mair 31, Michael Karpelson 32, Robert J Wood 32, Itai Cohen 33,34, Michael S Strano 1*
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
2Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
3Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Robotics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
4Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
5Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
6Department of Neurological Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
71955 Capital & K2A2 Consulting LLC (Biomedical Engineering), Signal Mountain, TN 37377, USA.
8Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
9Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
10Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
11National Center for Image Guided Therapy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
12Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
13School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
14Division of Digestive Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA.
15Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
16Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
17Activ Surgical Inc., Boston, MA 02210, USA.
18Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and the Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
19Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
20Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
21Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
22Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
23Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
24Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
25Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
26Department of Urology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
27Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.
28Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
29Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
30Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
31Weinberg Medical Physics Inc., North Bethesda, MD 20852, USA.
32Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
33Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
34Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
*Corresponding author.