1.7. Acknowledgments

The cisst software has been developed with the support of the National Science Foundation, EEC 9731748, EEC 0646678, and MRI 0722943.

The da Vinci Research Kit was supported by the National Science Foundation, via the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), as part of the collaborative research project “Software Framework for Research in Semi-Autonomous Teleoperation” between The Johns Hopkins University (IIS 1637789, 2016-2020), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (IIS 1637759, 2016-2021), and the University of Washington (IIS 1637444, 2016-2020).

The dVRK Consortium, based at JHU, has been organized by members of the dVRK community to provide technical support.

The National Science Foundation is supporting a network of networks, including the dVRK network, via the AccelNet program, as part of the collaborative project “International Collaboration to Accelerate Research in Robotic Surgery” led by The Johns Hopkins University (OISE 1927354, 2019-2024) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (OISE 1927275, 2019-2024).

Starting with Version 2.0.0, the dVRK software has also been supported by the Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center (MRC), InnoHK, Hong Kong, China.