Computer Vision News - August 2022

47 Towards Soft Robot-Assisted Needle translatable into the clinic. Compared to other contenders, we’re early in theproject’s progress, but what I think stood out was that we solved the problem differently. There are very established solutions to this problem of needle positioning with traditional robotics, but we’re using soft robotics , which is not very well established in clinical environments. ” segmentation performs in a realistic ear canal before turning this into a clinical trial. Could this linear pathway to clinical practice be the key to why the jury picked this paper for a prize? “ I think it has great potential to be deployed quickly because of the simplicity of the device and the target application, ” Lukas replies. “ It’s simple enough to be easily