Lab News

• 2025.09.26: We have started a joint research collaboration with 안성재 교수님 from the Department of Neurosurgery at Korea University Anam Hospital to achieve spinal surgery automation. 

• 2025.09.19: Hansoul received a generous contribution from 김창남 교수님 at Daejeon Eulji University Hospital, who provided Da Vinci surgical instruments for research use. This collaboration marks an important step towrads advancing our studies on autonomous surgical robotics.

• 2025.08.29: Hansoul gave a talk on “Towards Autonomous Endoscopic Surgery: Soft Robotics and AI-Based Control Framework” at the 2025 Summer Workshop for Promising Researchers in the IT Intelligence Convergence Division (IT지능융합부문 2025년 유망연구자 초청 하계 워크숍), held at Microsoft Korea Headquarters in Seoul. 

• 2025.03.12: Yeji Kim joined Intelligent Surgical Robotics Lab as undergraduate research assistant.

• 2025.02.13-14: We attended the 20th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC 2025).

• 2025.02.03: Junseo Hong and  Kanghyun Kim joined Intelligent Surgical Robotics Lab as undergraduate research assistant.

• 2024.12.17: We held an end-of-year gathering to mark the conclusion of the second semester of 2024.

• 2024.12.06: The Formlabs FORM4 3D printer has been set up in the lab.

• 2024.11.07: Hansoul has received funding (신임교원 연구기반 구축 지원사업) from Myongji University Industry and Academia Cooperation Foundation (명지대학교 산학협력단) to purchase a 3D printer.

• 2024.11.06: Sua Sul joined Intelligent Surgical Robotics Lab as undergraduate research assistant.

• 2024.11.04: We started research on control algorithms that can ensure theoretical safety guarantee in robot task automation with Yitaek Kim (Post-doc in SDU).

• 2024.09.29: Hansoul Kim, Yong-Jun Lee, and external researcher Dong-Geol Lee (KAIST, Roen Surgical) attended the kickoff meeting for the first research project (AI-based robotic calibration and control performance improvement). 

• 2024.09.03: Yong-Jun Lee joined Intelligent Surgical Robotics Lab as undergraduate research assistant.

• 2024.09.01: Best Healthcare Automation Paper Award, "Automating 3D Surgical Suture Planning", IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering - CASE 2024

• 2024.09.01: Lap Open at Myongji University