Abstract Automating earth-moving tasks has the potential to resolve labour-shortage, allow for unseen designs and foster sustainability through using on-site materials. In this interdisciplinary project involving robotics landscape architecture, we combine our previous work on autonomous excavation of free-form shapes, dynamic design terrain modelling tools into a robotic system. It tightly con...

Degenerative mitral valve disease is the most common reason for surgical referral of patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) (1). The most recent guidelines strongly recommend mitral valve repair (MVR) over replacement because of higher survival, better preservation of left ventricular function and greater freedoms from endocarditis, thromboembolism, and anticoagulant-related hemorrhage (1). Ro...