Allison Okamura, John Hopkins Unviersity (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University

Allison Okamura, John Hopkins Unviersity

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Mechanical engineer Allison Okamura, a leading researcher in human-machine interaction, demonstrates her lab's scissor-based surgical simulator. Her work is aimed at giving robotic surgical tools a sense of 'touch.'

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