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This event is for any healthcare professional, academic or company interested in discussing the challenges, current barriers and ways to move forward in the arena of surgical robots.
The global market for medical robotics and computer-assisted surgical (MRCAS) equipment was worth nearly $2.7 billion in 2013. The market is projected to approach $3.3 billion in 2014 and $4.6 billion by 2019 for a CAGR of 7% for the five-year period, 2014 to 2019. Surgical robots dominate the global MRCAS market accounting for more than 70%.
Robotic devices are extremely complex systems will require considerable amounts of R&D. Government support will therefore be crucial in these next 5 years.
The 2015 Innovative Surgical Robotics Forum is a event jointly organised by the Special Interest Group: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, the EU and the Department of Informatics, King’s College London. Four EU FP7 projects (STIFF-FLOP, ?Ralp, CASCADE, and ReMeDi) leading the field of surgical robotics will exhibit their latest achievements. During this event, the aim is to identify market opportunities and the gaps between clinical, academic and industrial communities to establish a multidisciplinary community focused on the subject. We will facilitate the exploitation of robotics R&D by bringing together the different stakeholders and create the opportunity to form new partnerships and collaborative relationships.

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Doctors have been using robotics to assist with surgery for a couple of decades. But now, they're experimenting with teaching the robots to do more surgical tasks on their own. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on how surgeries in the future could be performed.

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Designer Frank Kolkman hacks 3D printer components to build DIY surgical. OpenSurgery project, was presented at the RCA's Design Interactions graduate show, is a surgical robot made from a combination of off-the-shelf components and custom 3D-printed parts.

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A self-developed orthopedic robot system has been put into use in a hospital in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University carried out a robot-assisted orthopedic surgery on Tuesday.

During the operation, the robot first identified the accurate position, and then its mechanical arm guided doctors to the place.

The surgery only took 20 minutes, with small wounds.

SOUNDBITE (CHINESE): LI KAINAN, Dept. of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Univ.
"Through X-ray technology, we collect information and input it into the orthopedic robot's computer. Then the robot produces three dimensional images of bones. According to the images, we work out procedures and paths of the operation for precision positioning. Then the robot will follow our command and reach the designated place."

The robot consists of a control system - a computer, and an execution system - a mechanical arm.

Robot-assisted orthopedic surgery can achieve levels of accuracy, precision and safety not capable with computer-assisted orthopedic surgery.

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Today’s surgical robots extend a surgeon’s capacities; they filter out hand tremors and allow maneuvers that even the best surgeon couldn’t pull off with laparoscopic surgery’s typical long-handled tools. But tomorrow's robot surgeons will take over the operating room.

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In the future, your surgeon could be a machine. Teleoperated surgical robots can be controlled from a distance to operate on patients in hard-to-reach places. But as information travels between a human on one side of the world and a robot on the other, it’s vulnerable to attack.

In the first episode of our series ‘Can I Hack It?’ Motherboard visits researchers at the University of Washington who are exploring how teleoperated surgical robots could be hacked—so they can spot vulnerabilities before human patients are at risk.

We get hands on with the RAVEN II surgical robot and find out for ourselves how difficult it is to control when a hacker takes over. Could we be risking assassination by hacker?

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Abstract
The advent of robotic systems to medicine has revolutionized the practice of surgery. Most recently, several novel robotic surgical systems have been developed are entering the operative theater. This lecture will describe the current state-of-the-art in the robotic surgery. We will also describe some of the newer systems that are currently in use. Finally, the future of robotic surgery will be described in the context of clinical development and ease of use in the operating theaters of the future.


Speaker Biography
Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania obtaining his Medical Degree in 2000 and his PhD in Biophysics in 2002. He completed an internship in General Surgery in 2003 and residency training in Otolaryngology in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed fellowship training in Head and Neck Surgery in 2008 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He joined the University of Pittsburgh in August 2008 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Division and is also a staff physician in the VA Pittsburgh healthcare System. He serves as the Director of Robotic Surgery, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine and is the current Director of the Center for Advanced Robotics Training (CART) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He directs the Cart Training Courses which provide technical and circumstantial resources to initiate and optimize robotic surgery programs. He has authored numerous research publications and book chapters and is an invited guest lecturer/speaker on the subject of robotic surgery both nationally and internationally. A Fulbright scholar, his research interests include minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery of the head and neck, tumors of the thyroid and parathyroid glands and molecular oncology of head and neck cancer. He is a leader in his field and has proctored Transoral Robotic Surgery cases at numerous medical educational facilities throughout the United States and Europe. He directs a federally funded laboratory that studies the biology of head and neck cancer. He holds funding from the National Institute of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs and the “V” foundation.

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Dr. Shafi Ahmed, on the future of medical education, including his pioneering application of Virtual Reality in the Operating Room... livestreaming surgery in VR to thousands of medical students in real time...

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If you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter where they are. Surgeon and entrepreneur Nadine Hachach-Haram is developing a new system that helps surgeons operate together and train one another on new techniques -- from remote locations using low-cost augmented reality tools. Watch the system in action as she joins a surgeon in Minnesota performing a knee surgery, live on her laptop from the TED stage in New Orleans. As Hachach-Haram says: "Through simple, everyday devices that we take for granted, we can really do miraculous things." (This talk contains graphic images of surgery.)

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Virtual reality is helping neurosurgeons and patients visualize brain surgeries in 3D. Plus, robotic skins could give astronauts the freedom to turn inanimate objects into robots, and a Rubik's cube that solves itself.

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Videopresentation of Dr. R. Sudan at the 10th CRSA Worldwide Congress - Hong Kong

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Videopresentation of Dr. M. Anvari at the 10th CRSA Worldwide Congress - Hong Kong

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