Imperial kicks off UK Robotics Week with a challenge
A surgical robotics challenge will be held at Imperial tomorrow as part of UK Robotics Week celebrations.
The week-long celebration (25 June – 1 July) aims to help people to learn more about robotics, stimulate discussion about the role of robots in our lives and inspire the next generation of scientists.
UK Robotics Week 2016 is organised by the UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network) and supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Professor Yang says UK Robotics Week provides an opportunity to talk about how robotics will change our lives.
As part of the celebrations, Imperial’s Hamlyn Centre will hold The Surgical Robot Challenge 2016. This is an international competition where teams from around the world will come to Imperial to showcase the latest innovations in surgical robotics.
The aim of the challenge is for teams to augment commercially available surgical robotic technology for a range of new purposes. Each team will have three hours to set up their surgical robot and demonstrate their innovation to a panel of experts including pioneers of the field and leading surgeons. Competition prize money in total is £10,000. [...]
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