Shrinking the Cutting Edge: Making Small-Scale Medical Robots for Humans
Organizers
- Veronica Iacovacci (primary contact)
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, viale R. Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy, veronica.iacovacci@santannapisa.it , URL: https://www.santannapisa.it/it/veronica-iacovacci - Stefano Palagi
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, viale R. Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy, stefano.palagi@santannapisa.it , URL: https://www.santannapisa.it/en/stefano-palagi - Li Zhang
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China address, lizhang@cuhk.edu.hk, URL: https://www4.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/peoples/zhang-li/ - Aaron T. Becker
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Houston (currently Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) atbecker@uh.edu, http://youtube.com/aabecker5/
Abstract
This workshop brings together experienced researchers and students to discuss the state-of-the-art, the technical problems, and the challenges of small-scale medical robots. From a science fiction vision of miniaturizing robots to access remote regions in the human body, the field of small-scale robotics has witnessed an astonishing evolution in the last decade. This evolution has been fostered by a highly interdisciplinary approach involving roboticists, material scientists, physicists, computer scientists, and medical doctors. It is time for the small-scale medical robotics community to identify the challenges preventing applications on real medical challenges. In this framework, the workshop will bring together this community to explore both the scientific and the robotic core of small-scale medical robotics. The workshop will include two vision talks, keynotes, and invited talks covering four main topics which support this vision:
- Imaging and tracking of small-scale robots in vivo;
- Control of small-scale medical robots;
- Materials and fabrication strategies for small-scale robots;
- Smart nanomedicine.
Tentative schedule & speakers
This workshop will bring together young and experienced researchers as well as students to discuss the state-of-the-art, technical problems, and the challenges of small-scale medical robots.
| 8:45 | 9:00 | Registration and Opening |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Vision Talk Brad Nelson (ETH Zurich): Platform Technologies for Microrobotics |
| 9:30 | 10:20 | Session 1 Imaging and tracking of small-scale robots in vivo |
| 9:30 | 9:50 | Keynote Talk Sylvain Martel (Polytechnique Montréal): Compensating the limitation of imaging technologies with more autonomous small-scale medical robots |
| 9:50 | 10:05 | Invited Talk: Arianna Menciassi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) Novel microrobot imaging strategies toward closed-loop control in tissues |
| 10:05 | 10:20 | Invited talk Kai Fung Chan, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Image-guided microrobotic platform for endoluminal interventions in the gastrointestinal tract |
| 10:20 | 10:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:50 | 11:40 | Control of small-scale medical robots |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Keynote: Sarthak Misra (University of Twente, confirmed) |
| 11:10 | 11:25 | Invited talk: Jake Abbott (The University of Utah, invited) |
| 11:25 | 11:40 | Invited talk: Tiantian Xu “Independent control strategy of multiple small-scale magnetic flexible swimming robots” (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed) |
| 11:40 | 12:40 | Flash talks with troubleshooting |
| 12:40 | 13:40 | LUNCH |
| 13:40 | 14:40 | Poster session |
| 14:40 | 15:10 | Vision Talk: Philip Chiu “The Clinical side of Microrobotics” (Chinese University of Hong Kong, confirmed) |
| 15:10 | 16:00 | Materials and fabrication strategies for small scale robots |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Keynote: Wei Gao “Imaging guided ingestible microrobots” (California Institute of Technology, confirmed) |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Invited talk: Ambarish Gosh “Multifunctional helical nanorobots: from cancer to dentistry” (Indian Institute of Science, confirmed) |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Invited talk: Larisa Florea “Stimuli-responsive materials for actuation and sensing at the microscale” (Trinity college Dublin, confirmed) |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 | 17:20 | Smart nanomedicine |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Keynote: Simone Schuerle, “Engineering and spatially selective control of biohybrid and bioinspired microrobots for locally enhanced drug delivery of nanomedicine” (ETH Zurich, confirmed) |
| 16:50 | 17:05 | Invited talk: Lianqing Liu “Magnetic Continuum Robot with Multi-Mode Control for Cross-scale accurate drug delivery” (Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed) |
| 17:05 | 17:20 | Invited talk: Donglei (Emma) Fan (The University of Texas at Austin, confirmed) |
| 17:20 | 18:00 | Roundtable + Awards |
Call for contribution
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