Prof. Hongliang Ren (CUHK) delivered the welcome note.
Prof. Nassir Navab (TUM) discussed his team's recent advances in intelligent operating room scene reconstruction and multimodal visual perception for surgical robotics.
Prof. Leonardo Mattos (IIT) presented the latest research advances from his group on robotics and artificial intelligence-assisted minimally invasive laser surgery.
Prof. Mingchuan Zhou (ZJU) systematically presented their cutting-edge achievements in the fields of ophthalmic surgery and cell manipulation robotics.
Prof. Dandan Zhang (ICL) gave an in-depth discussion on the critical role of trustworthy intelligent medical robots in advancing healthcare towards the 5.0 era.
Prof. Yunjie Yang (UoE) shared his team's latest research advances in whole-body sensing for soft robotics and flexible tomographic imaging technology.
Prof. Guoying Gu (SJTU) provided an insightful overview of his team's original achievements in soft robotics, including actuation mechanism modeling, structural optimization design, nonlinear control, and interactive sensing interfaces.
Workshop authors engaged with the audience in discussing their research work and insights during the 3-minute oral pitches and the interactive poster session.
Prof. Jiewen Lai (CUHK) presented awards to the workshop winners.