The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR) is now in its 13th year and has provided an annual forum for surgeons and engineers from across the globe to network and explore the latest developments in medical robotics. Every year researchers, clinicians and engineers are invited to submit papers on a range of topics covering clinical specialities in Urology, Cardiac Surgery, Neuro Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedic and Paediatric Surgery.
This year we plan to build beyond the previous achievements and take the symposium to even higher successes with the theme of ‘Surgery and Beyond’. We have already received full CPD accreditation from the Royal College of Surgeons and to complement this we are planning a programme with increased focus on clinical practitioner centered talks, workshops and presentations.
Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2021: Workshop
In modern surgery, body lumens increasingly serve as an access route to deeply located anatomic regions.
While such minimally invasive approaches show prospects of better clinical outcome, it is also very challenging for the practitioner. Indeed, navigation through narrow, fragile, and deformable lumens requires considerable skill, dexterity and consequently imposes a large mental load. Moreover, visualization is often indirect, and of poor quality.
Mechanical phenomena such as slack, backlash and compliance further hamper the controllability of the instruments. As a result, surgeons undergo steep learning curves and even experienced surgeons often lack confidence about their gestures. Surgical risks including internal bleeding, tissue damage, puncture or rupture are imminent.
Robotic devices show the promise of enhancing such complex surgical operations. The development of soft, compliant robots, together with enhanced navigation techniques and innovative in situ imaging technologies, are bound to transform surgical practice. New interfaces are being explored to ensure intuitive and safe operation.
Soft compliant structures are very common in nature, for example in molluscs such as squid which employ muscular hydrostatic skeleton systems as soft robotic solutions for grasping and locomotion. It therefore makes strong sense to study these clever biological examples for the design of innovative soft robotic surgical devices.
This workshop brings experts from both academia and industry in order to discuss recent advances and future trends in robotic autonomous intraluminal navigation. Examples from different clinical application scenarios will be discussed.
Programme:
16.00 – 16.10: E. Vander Poorten, KUL, Welcome & Introduction
16.10 – 16.35: H. Rafii-Tari, Auris Robotics, Transforming Intra-luminal Intervention with the MONARCH® Platform
16.35 – 17.00: M. Abdelaziz, Hamlyn Centre, CathBot: a Versatile Endovascular Robotic Platform
17.00 – 17.25: E. Votta, POLIMI, The ARTERY Project: Reinventing Transcatheter Cardiac Procedures by Shared Autonomy Robotics
17.25 – 17.50: J. Van Leeuwen, Univ. Wageningen, Unravelling ‘smart designs’ in nature with biomimetic potential
17.50 – 18.00: B. Rosa, CNRS & P. Breedveld, TU Delft, Closing Remarks
This workshop is worth 2 CPD point, please register to qualify for certification.
