The theme for this year’s Symposium is "The Next 10 Years: Challenges, Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Robotics". Topics to be addressed by the symposium include, but are not limited to:
- Co-operative Control and Perceptual Docking
- Clinical highlights in Urology, Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedic and Paediatric Surgery
- Economic and general consideration of robotic surgery
- Emerging, multi-specialty applications of robotic technology
- Flexible Robotics
- Human robot interaction and ergonomics
- Intra-operative imaging and biophotonics for robotic surgery
- Mechatronic designs for medical robotics
- Medical image computing and computer assisted intervention
- Medical robotics for NOTES
- Microbot design and applications
- Neurosurgery
- Smart Instruments
- Surgical navigation and augmented reality systems
- Surgical simulation, training and skills assessment
The line up of speakers will be confirmed shortly.
