Early Breakthroughs In Robotics Surgery

A Pennsylvania-based entrepreneur, Chris Moehle brings several years of robotics experience to The Robotics Hub. He leads the organization as managing director. Chris Moehle is also interested in the use of surgical robots for minimally invasive surgeries.

Robotic surgery intends to serve as a remote distance solution. It enables healthcare professionals to perform surgical procedures without making physical contact with the patient. Various robotics systems already deliver commercial applications in multifaceted surgical procedures across the branches of medicine.

Arthrobot was among the first surgical robots. They follow voice commands and orient needles during brain biopsies. In 1996, the FDA approved the Automated Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning (AESOP) robotic system. AESOP scales motion and mitigates tremors. It was part of the first long-distance telesurgical procedure in history. A New York-based surgeon performed laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on a patient located in Strasbourg.

Surgical robots aim to reduce pathogen contamination among humans during procedures and keep up with surgical demand.

 

Initiative for Global Prosperity

The recipient of an MBA in entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University, Chris Moehle has a background in robotics and venture capital. Chris Moehle currently serves as managing director of The Robotics Hub. It's the world’s first venture capital organization focused on emerging robotics breakthroughs. The Robotics Hub supports innovation with social impact and counts Global Maker Challenge and Global Prosperity as partners.

The Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity dedicates focus to uniting. It brings together leading manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and government agencies. Start-ups and philanthropists are others. The initiative honors community achievements. It also established the Global Marker Challenge, an open innovation platform. The goal is socio-economic impact addressing the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

The focus is empowering startups with the access and resources to tackle needed impact challenges. This aligns very well with the mission of the Robotics Hub. As such, the Robotics Hub is proud to support the Initiative.

Applying AI in The Classroom

As managing director of The Robotics Hub in Pittsburgh Chris Moehle coordinates investments that build and transform robotics startups. Chris Moehle's interests include augmented intelligence, which involves implementing smart technologies to work with humans instead of replacing them.

Augmented intelligence is about humans and artificial intelligence combining forces to accomplish tasks in a faster, more efficient manner. With augmented intelligence, jobs can be redesigned in ways that can help increase employee efficiency, satisfaction, and safety. This functionality efficiently can improve multiple sectors – such as sales, medicine, pharmacology, and education.

In schools, for instance, teachers spend significant amounts of time preparing for classes, grading assignments, and asserting control. These activities, although required, may not help individual students unleash their potential. Augmented intelligence can help teachers with grading and provide teachers insights on areas where students may need help, through functions such as displaying the amount of time a student spends on each question. With such insight, teachers can adopt a personalized, outcome-based approach by helping each student master areas where they are facing difficulties.

Robotics and Employment - Future Prospects

For more than five years, Chris Moehle has served as managing director of The Robotics Hub in Pittsburgh. Chris Moehle’s interests include identifying and providing organizational and funding support for startups ready to launch new and advanced robotics.

With fast-paced technological advances in engineering, energy storage, automation, and artificial intelligence, and the incorporation of these technologies into machines (robots) to perform functions that previously could only be performed by humans, robotics is progressing at a faster pace. Over the past two decades, the global population of robots has tripled, and machines assist humans with about 30 percent of tasks today. Based on current trends, the global stock of robots potentially could grow even faster in the next two decades.

Robotics and automation are expected to drive new and better employment opportunities that will involve minimal dangerous physical labor and like tasks poorly suited to humans. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), robots will help create 97 million new jobs as humans and robots work together in the future.

Ariel’s ADVANCE for Pancreatitis

A problem-solving venture capitalist, Chris Moehle has extensive knowledge and experience in robotics. Chris Moehle serves as a board member at technology-based companies, including Ariel Precision Medicine, which develops diagnostic solutions.

A clinical decision support platform developed by Ariel, ADVANCE(R) simplifies diagnosis of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) in its early stages and enables more accurate treatment options. Common treatments for pancreatitis address symptoms such as upper abdominal pain, fever, nausea, rapid pulse, weight loss, and/or steatorrhea (oily and unpleasant smelling stool).

However, in most cases of complex disorders like pancreatitis, there is not a single cause and underlying issues may remain untreated. ADVANCE, with its AI-powered technology, integrates evidence-based knowledge with deep genetic sequencing to efficiently diagnose the condition and provide reports that can be utilized by health professionals. ADVANCE results in a personalized diagnosis by integrating multiple factors, including the patient's genetics, environmental and lifestyle factors, and medical history.

Poket-Providing Access to Merchants

Chris Moehle, an entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been the managing director of The Robotics Hub since 2015. In this role, Chris Moehle raises funds for ventures that create innovative inventions. The Robotics Hub partners with organizations such as the Mohammad Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity, which supports innovation with social impact.

The Mohammad Bin Rashid Initiative gave the start-up Poket the 2020 Global Prosperity Award for establishing a platform that helps business people in emerging companies access funding. Entrepreneurs can use the online platform to launch their ventures.

According to The Mohammad Bin Rashid Initiative website, many merchants in emerging countries work in an informal market, selling their goods and services in urban and emerging urban centers. In Nigeria, for example, 90 percent of the retail companies operate in an informal economy.

Many of these economies are cash-based, undocumented, and unmapped, making the collection of data difficult. Poket’s solution is to create a platform for crowdsourcing with a digital platform that relies on Android phones.

Through Poket, local merchants can share data with partners and learn insights into the economy. By tracking performance, these merchants become part of the formal economy and provide insights into rural supply chains.