Hamlyn Medical Microrobotics Video Competition 2017

The Hamlyn Centre invites applicants to participate in the 3rd Hamlyn Medical Microrobotics Video Competition (HMMVC). Entrants are asked to demonstrate their work in the field of medical microrobots in a short and descriptive video format. See below for some examples of part entries and winners.

The competition will take place on the 28th of June 2017 at the "Microrobotics and Microfabrication" workshop at the 10th , at the Royal Geographical Society in London. It is part of the 10th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robots (http://www.hamlyn-robotics.org/).

The competition will be judged by fellow peers in the microrobotics world. As with the previous 2 competitions, the videos are judged by the workshop audience based on a number of criteria (see below).

Competition participants are welcome to join the workshop in London, but does not exclude those who cannot attend in person from submitting. Primarily, this competition is intended to encourage high-quality communication of microrobotic research and to help researchers to showcase their work to a wider audience.

The winning participant will also receive an iPad mini.

Competition Entry

Please submit your video entries to m.power13@imperial.ac.uk as attached file, Dropbox / Google Docs link, Youtube link etc.

Video Entry Requirements

The video should showcase the entrant's research - how their technology works, strength of the proposed target medical application, how it has been or could be translated to clinical practice and overall quality communication in video.

Each video should be no longer than 4 minutes.

Entrants who submitted to previous HMMVCs should ensure that this year's video submission has clear, newly added research.

Depending on the number of entries, a pre-selection rounds may take place before the symposium. Entrants will be notified about this before the event takes place.

Important Dates

20 June 2017 - Video submission deadline

25 June 2017 - Notification for selected entries

28 June 2017 - Competition (judging and announcement of the winner)

Judging Criteria

The four main criteria which audience members will be asked to score the entries on are:

• Strength of the medical application
• Future potential for real work deployment
• Technical novelty of the robot / system
• Quality of communication

Past Winners

The winners from the last two years came from Max Plank Institute (2015) and Johns Hopkins University (2016).

From last year's entries, the category with the strongest influence over the winning entry was "Quality of Video Communication", closely followed by "Strength of Medical Application".

Past Participants

Selected past video entries: