Inside The Life & Career Of A Surgical Roboticist | The Human Podcast #38 (Prof Danail Stoyanov)

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Danail Stoyanov is a Professor of Robot Vision at the Department of Computer Science at UCL and the Director of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS).

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UCL - https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/32290

Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/interventional-surgical-sciences/wellcome-epsrc-centre-interventional-and-surgical-sciences-weiss

🕒 TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - What Does Your Work Involve?

1:10 - What Is Robot Vision?

3:16 - AI & Robotics In Surgery

8:09 - Director Of Research Centre

10:06 - Devices Dan's Created

11:03 - Medical Community's Response

14:31 - Dream Use Cases

18:13 - ChatGPT-Like Assistant System

19:42 - Future Home Treatments

20:40 - Will Surgery Ever Be Fully Autonomous?

24:44 - Dan's Early Interests (Architecture, Art)

27:30 - University & PhD

30:24 - What Motivates You To Do This Work?

31:07 - Other High-Impact Robotics Careers

31:58 - Neuralink

34:08 - Typical Week

37:04 - Being A Father

37:41 - What Is A Good Life?

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