Past Events

To foster collaboration amongst European surgical robotics laboratories, research institutes and medical companies individually and on a larger scale between EU-funded consortia, a block review meeting will be organized in Leuven, Belgium in the week from 24 to 28 March; participating consortia are: microRALP - STIFF-FLOP and CASCADE. Simultaneously this even will be used to show-case the current state of European Surgical Robotic efforts towards the general public during the European Surgical Robotics Demonstration Day which is open to the general public. Given the limited availability registration is mandatory and can be done here (participants to review meeting register through the review registration site).

European Surgical Robotics Demonstration Day specific information

• meeting agenda
• registration to meeting and reception offered by L-MTC. Note that the number of participants is limited to 150. Participants to the block review meeting should register. Registration is closed.

Block review specific information

• registration
  • registration to meeting and social event - registration is closed.
• agendas --- overall agenda 24 - 28 March
  
  • agenda 24 March - microRALP review
  • agenda 25 - 26 March - STIFF-FLOP review
  • agenda 26 March - EPO workshop
  • agenda 27 March - European Demonstration Day
  • agenda 28 March - CASCADE review
• the social event - will take place March 26 from 19:30 onwards in restaurant Mykene Muntstraat 44 - 3000 Leuven - registration is obligatory.
• hotels & accommodation

Common information

• maps & directions (bottom of document)
• contact information (bottom of document)

CASCADE will demonstrate part of its technology on the 2013 EU Robotics Week. Interested people are invited to see how novel surgical instruments and robots provide surgeons higher dexterity, precision and ergonomy in possibly life-saving operations. The event is open to the general public. Please find more information on this event here.

The second general assembly of the CASCADE project was held on 9^th, 10^th, and 11^th of October 2013 at the University of Bremen, Germany.

• Meeting report
• Meeting presentations
• Meeting pictures
• Agenda
• Access to the Robotics Group of University of Bremen
(Subsidiary Office Unicom 1)
• Accommodation
• Transportation in Bremen

Robotic surgery is one of the most appealing fields of modern robotics. With over 2 decades history, more than 2.000 systems installed worldwide and over 200.000 interventions conducted per annum; the field of robotic surgery is considered well-established. Despite these impressive figures and increasing popularity in research labs all over the world, the list of technological advances that made it into the operating room (OR) during this last decade is fairly limited. Long expected techniques such as 3D reconstruction, motion compensation, virtual guidance, haptic feedback, under study in many labs all over the planet did not make their appearance into the market yet.

This workshop seeks to give a clear view on the status and recent trends of abovementioned assistive surgical robotic technologies and aims to propose concrete measures to achieve a critical mass in research and innovation in this field. In fact, regardless of its popularity, the share of European technology used in clinical practice remains disproportionally small, with limited signs of improvement on the horizon. The workshop will continue the discussion started at ERF in Lyon and at ICRA in Karlsruhe and will attempt to identify the steps necessary to stimulate cooperation among the projects in robotic surgery and the best approach to take advantage of the supposed attention of Horizon2020 to innovation.