LOCATION
Meeting Room: Schubert 3, Time: Full Day
Date: 1 June 2026
Remark:
Long talk (30 mins: 25 mins + 5 mins Q&A): 8 spots
Short talk (15 mins: 12 mins + 3 mins Q&A): 2 spots
Poster: 1 min teaser presentation + poster presentation
Full Panelists:
Bradley J. Nelson, Dirk Wilhelm, Christos Bergeles, Caroline Essert, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Axel Krieger, Arianna Menciassi, Nassir Navab
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: Collaborative Robotics in the Operating Room
Ka-Wai Kwok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Title of the talk: Soft robotic actuation and control for applications in MRI-guided interventions
Poster Section
Morning Poster Teasers: Posters 1–10 | 10:10–10:50
No. 01: Salvatore Esposito, Matias Mattamala, Daniel Rebain, Francis Xiatian Zhang, Kevin Dhaliwal, Mohsen Khadem, and Subramanian Ramamoorthy, "ROOM: A Physics-Based Continuum Robot Simulator for Photorealistic Medical Datasets Generation."
No. 02: Giulia Tampone, Ilaria Manghi, Elisa Zanni, Vittorio Cuculo, and Federica Ferraguti, "A Geometry-Aware Foundation Model for Joint Semantic Segmentation and Metric Depth Estimation in Laparoscopic Surgery."
No. 03: Ilaria Manghi, Elisa Zanni, Giulia Tampone, Cristiano Guidetti, Paolo Magistri, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, and Federica Ferraguti, "Markerless Monocular 3D Surface Reconstruction and Pre-to-Intraoperative Registration for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery."
No. 04: Chiara Rita Piemontese, Federica Ferraguti, Nassir Navab, and Mohammad Farid Azampour, "Target-Driven Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Probe Positioning for Anatomies Occluded by Acoustic Shadows."
No. 05: Mostafa Atalla, Anand Sekar, Remi van Starkenburg, David Jager, Aimée Sakes, Michaël Wiertlewski, and Paul Breedveld, "OSCAR: An Ovipositor-Inspired Self-Propelling Capsule Robot for Colonoscopy."
No. 06: Valerio Franchi, Faran Akram, Hayat Rajani, and Rafael Garcia, "A Multi-Robot System for Total Body Photography with Dermatoscopic Image Quality."
No. 07: Shixing Ma, Shuwei Shao, Xinzhe Du, Frank P.-W. Lo, Max Q.-H. Meng, and Zhe Min, "Generalizable Self-Supervised Depth Estimation for Monocular Endoscopy with Dual-Level Mixture of Experts."
No. 08: Yameng Zhang, Dianye Huang, Xiangyu Chu, K. W. Samuel Au, and Zhongliang Jiang, "Seeing Globally, Refining Locally: Global Visual Guidance and Local Ultrasound Cues for Robust Freehand 3-D Ultrasound Reconstruction."
No. 09: Giulio Besi, Connor Daly, Federica Ferraguti, Klaus Schlueter-Brust, Johann Henkel, and Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, "Evaluation of Apple Vision Pro for Quasi-Markerless Surgical Navigation: A Preliminary Phantom-Based Feasibility Study."
No. 10: Feng Li, Ziyuan Li, Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, and Nassir Navab, "Robotic Ultrasound Makes CBCT Alive."
Afternoon Poster Teasers: Posters 10–19 | 15:30-16:10
No. 11: Jana Nina Friedrich, Andrea Karin Maria Ross, Angelo Henriques, Mario Peter Martin Weisser, Ling Zhang, and Mohammad Ali Nasseri, "Surgical Re-enactment for Operating Room Workflow Datasets."
No. 12: Joselyn Romero Avila, Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, and Anastasia Yendiki, "Topology-Aware Sparse-Structure Segmentation for Robust Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging."
No. 13: Haozheng Xu, Zhaoyang Jacopo Hu, Yanrui Liu, Brudfors Mikael, Oliver Kutter, and Stamatia Giannarou, "AI-assisted Robot Control with Markerless Visual Guidance."
No. 14: Luca Beber, Edoardo Lamon, Matteo Saveriano, Daniele Fontanelli, and Luigi Palopoli, "Active Mechanical Imaging for Autonomous Robotic Tissue Palpation via Ergodic Exploration."
No. 15: Valerio Franchi, Marc Torrent, Roma Barrera Moreno, Hayat Rajani, Sherif Sameh Adly Samy, Rafel Pelach, and Rafael Garcia, "OculaRobot: An Autonomous Framework for Precision Intravitreal Injection."
No. 16: Griffin Smith, Sophia Aslanidis, Colton Gleason, Murad Ammar, Benjamin van der Woerd, Sarah Khalife, and Onaizah Onaizah, "Rapidly Deployable Nasal Surgery Tools Using Magnetic Soft Continuum Robots."
No. 17: Zeyang Zhou, Shan Jiang, Shuo Yang, Wei Wang, Hengrui Liang, and Fei Cui, "Mixed Reality and Digital Twin-Driven Collaborative Control Strategy for Respiratory-Oriented Lung Biopsy Robotic Navigation."
No. 18: Davide Nardi, Edoardo Lamon, Daniele Fontanelli, Matteo Saveriano, and Luigi Palopoli, "Automatic Generation of Virtual Fixtures from Digital Twin for Teleoperated Lung Ultrasound."
No. 19: Yuelin Zhang, Qingpeng Ding, Luoyao Kang, Zhouyang Hong, Wenxuan Xie, Longxiang Tang, Chengyu Fang, and Shing Shin Cheng, "Autonomous Ultrasound-Guided Needle Intervention with Adaptive Vision-Language-Action Model."
No. 20: Juan Sandoval, Kevin Gaitan, Amir Trabelsi, Nassir Navab, and Stephane Caro, "PercuCob: A Cobotic Assistant for Image-Guided Percutaneous Interventions."
No. 21: Luca Cinus, Enrico Donato, Egidio Falotico, and Veronica Iacovacci, "A Physics-Informed 3D U-Net for Ultrasound Acoustic PhaseAnalysis–Based Tracking of Magnetic Microrobots."