LOCATION
Meeting Room: Schubert 3, Time: Full Day
Date: 1 June 2026
TALKS
Agostino Stilli, University College London, UK
Title of the talk: Soft Robotics in Clinical Endoscopy: Expanding Reach from Diagnosis to Therapy
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany
Title of the talk: Perception and manipulation of deformable objects in cognitive robotic surgery
JMM Montiel, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Title of the talk: EndoCartoScope, 3D SLAM in real human colonoscopy
Gasper Podobnik, Semaphor Surgical, USA
Title of the talk: Physics-Based Simulation as Intelligence Infrastructure for Procedural AI
Christos Bergeles, King’s College London, UK
Title of the talk: Vision-based micromanipulation in IVF
Caroline Essert, The University of Strasbourg , France
Title of the talk: Needle path planning for image guided interventions
Manning Wang, Fudan University, China
Title of the talk: Point Cloud-based Spatial Registration and Its Application in Image Guided Interventions
Bradley J. Nelson, ETH Zurich,, Switzerland
Title of the talk: Clinically Ready Microrobots
Dirk Wilhelm, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Title of the talk:
Ka-Wai Kwok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Title of the talk: Soft robotic actuation and control for applications in MRI-guided interventions
Panelists:
Arianna Menciassi, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Nassir Navab, and Danail Stoyanov.