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THE MULTIROBOTS-SURGERY
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The SARAS system will be developed in three increasingly complex platforms.
Each platform implements some of the SARAS results that will be exploited and extended by the next ones.
PROJECT MEETING M9 – Barcelona in September 25-26, 2018
The 1st SARAS’ Project Meeting held at UPC at Barcelona in Spain on the 25th and 26th September it was an occasion of networking and sharing.
On the 1st day the Consortium had the opportunity to discuss about the status of the project, simplified medical proceduces, phantoms development, action and speech recognition and quality management.
On the day two partners presented SARAS’ master console and the slave robot for the assistant surgeon, the SARAS teleoperating architecture, multi-robot navigation, human-robot interaction and force estimation.
COSUR 2018: SOME NUMBERS FROM THE 2ND EDITION
During the week of 9 to 13 July 2018, 26 attendees and 16 speakers from mostly all continents met in Verona to attend COSUR 2018.
COSUR is at its second edition and it is a biannual Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots organized by ALTAIR Robotics laboratory in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 projects ARS (Autonomous Robotic Surgery) and SARAS.
THE 2ND MelaTX WORKSHOP – Seville in June 6-8, 2018
UPC participated in the Second MelaTX workshop held in Seville in June 6-8, 2018.
UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC) developed together with surgeons of Hospital Virgen Macarena (Seville) and Hospital Clínic (Barcelona) this training platform for the surgical training in the frame of a the workshop 2nd MelaTx Workshop.
25 surgeons from all around Spain (10 hospitals from 10 cities) participated in the Course on 7 experimental platforms.
COSUR 2018: APPLICATION DEADLINE POSTPONED
The Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots (COSUR) 2018 funded by the ARS project, the SARAS projects, the MURAB project, the Doctoral Program in Natural Sciences and Engineering and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona will be from the 9th of July till the 13th;
NEW application deadline: 15 May 2018
SARAS AT THE MOST POPULAR ROBOTIC EVENT OF EUROPE: ERF 2018
The European Robotics Forum (ERF2018) is the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe and will be held in Tampere, Finland, on 13-15 March 2018.
Over 800 European robotics top experts are expected to attend the conference. Under the theme “Robots and Us”, ERF2018 covers current societal and technical themes related to the field of robotics. Interesting subjects will be discussed, including human-robot-collaboration and how robotics can improve industrial productivity and service sector operations.