Time
Talk
Content
08:45–09:00
All Organizers
Introduction and Welcome Remarks
09:00-09:30
Baoru Huang
Unifying Vision and Language for Robotic Intelligence: From Robotic Manipulation to Surgical Assistance
09:30-10:30
Hongliang Ren
Endoluminal Robotics & Embodied AI in vivo
10:00-10:30
Ken Goldberg
“Augmented Dexterity”: How Robots Can Enhance Human Surgical Skills
10:30–11:00
N/A
Morning coffee break Poster Session 1
11:00-11:30
Michael Yip
Does Surgical Autonomy Really Have a Training Data Problem? A Perspective through Automating Surgical Tasks and Endoscopic Navigation
11:30-12:10
Alan Kuntz
Hongliang Ren
Sabino Zani, MD, Intuitive (Industry)
Panel Discussion 1: AI-driven Perception and Reasoning for Surgical Autonomy
12:10-13:30
N/A
Lunch break
13:30-14:00
Allison Okamura
Form Factor: Implications of Autonomy for Surgical Robot Design
14:00-14:30
Lueder Alexander Kahrs
Towards Autonomous Cutting with Laser and Scissors Instruments
14:30-15:00
Axel Krieger
A Hierarchical Policy Framework for Long-Horizon Autonomous Surgery
15:00-15:30
Mahdi Tavakoli
Building Simulation for Surgical Autonomy and Surgical Robot Learning
15:30–16:00
N/A
Afternoon coffee break & Poster Session 2
16:00-16:35
PhD Candidate / Postdoc
Two Rising Star Talks
16:35-17:15
Mathias Unbearth
Michael Yip
Ji Woong Kim
Patrick Codd, MD
Panel Discussion 2: Policy Learning and Emerging Robotic Embodiments for Surgical Interaction
17:15-17:30
All Organizers
Best Poster Awards & Closing Remarks