ICRA 2014 Soft Medical Robots Full Day Workshop

to be held at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, 1 June 2014

The program is now available here.

This workshop aims to bring together medical experts active in the field of minimally invasive surgery and roboticists creating and studying soft and stiffness controllable robot devices. We will explore the synergies that will arise from robotic surgeons cooperating with such modern robots to conduct advanced surgical interventions previously not possible.

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This ICRA 2014 workshop will provide a review of current technology used in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery and explore the current paradigm shift from traditionally rigid surgical tools to robotic systems that are highly redundant, soft and possibly capable of changing their structural stiffness to adapt to surgical needs. The workshop will explore the advantages of these new robotic concepts and the challenges that lie ahead to create functional robot systems that can be employed in the operating theatre of the future.

Round table discussions will focus on obstacles and challenges and the future direction of robotic surgery. The workshop will also act as a platform for wider discussions and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between engineers and surgeons.

List of topics

  • Surgical robots: state of the art, current research efforts
  • Soft robots
  • Stiffness-controllable robot systems
  • Actuation and stiffening mechanisms
  • Controllability, stability, force/torque transmission
  • Future direction of development in surgical robots
  • Soft / stiffness controllable manipulators for MIS
  • Granular jamming robots
  • Bio-mimetic and bio-inspired devices
  • Kinematics and dynamics modeling of continuous devices, control
  • Sensing, including Tactile, Force and torque, Stiffness sensing
  • Testing and clinical validation of soft manipulators in MIS environments
  • End user interface

List of invited speakers (confirmed)

CaldwellbwProf. Darwin Caldwell
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IT

 

 

AriannaMenciassiProf. Arianna Menciassi
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, IT

 

 

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Prof. Fumiya Iida
ETH Zurich, CH

 

 

AlbertoArezzoDr Alberto Arezzo
Universita’ di Torino, IT

 

 

chakravarthini_saajDr Chakravarthini Saaj
University of Surrey, UK

 

 

Althoefer,Kaspar smallProf. Kaspar Althoefer
King’s College London, UK

 

 

tnanayakkarra smallDr Thrishantha Nanayakkara
King’s College London, UK

 

 

Contact

General information: Contact@ICRA14-SoftMedicalRobots-Workshop.com

Organizing Committee

Althoefer,Kaspar smallProf. Kaspar Althoefer
King’s College London, UK

 

 

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Prof. Fumiya Iida
ETH Zurich, CH

 

 

tnanayakkarra smallDr Thrishantha Nanayakkara
King’s College London, UK

 

 

Hongbin Liu small

Dr. Hongbin Liu
King’s College London

 

 

ELS

Dr Emanuele L Secco
King’s College London, UK

 

 

HAW

Dr Helge A Wurdemann
King’s College London, UK