Camera control for surgical robotic systems

A surgical robotic system, comprising:

• a computing device;
• a plurality of robot assemblies, each robot assembly among the plurality of robot assemblies including a robotic arm,
• a robotic arm of a first robot assembly among the plurality of robot assemblies is coupled to an image capture device,
• robotic arms of at least a subset of robot assemblies, different from the first robot assembly, are coupled to surgical instruments;
• and
• a surgeon console including a plurality of handles, each handle among the plurality of handles is communicatively coupled to a robot assembly that includes a robotic arm coupled to a surgical instrument, the surgeon console configured to transmit to the computing device one or more packets that include data related to a movement of at least one handle among the plurality of handles;
• the computing device configured to calculate a new position of the image capture device based at least in part on the data related to the movement of at least one handle and transmit instructions to the first robot assembly to move the image capture device to the new position.