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The Healthcare Robotics Engineering Discussion board (HREF), produced by Robotic Enterprise Overview’s father or mother firm WTWH Media, gives engineers, engineering administration and enterprise professionals with knowledgeable steerage, peer networking alternatives and hands-on entry to the newest robotics-enabling applied sciences. The Discussion board lately introduced its full convention agenda for the Could 10-11, 2023 occasion on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Middle.
These convention periods are designed to offer technical professionals the knowledge they should efficiently develop and manufacture healthcare robotics techniques. The expo flooring will present attendees with direct entry to the newest design and improvement options for producing healthcare robotics applied sciences and merchandise, with over 150 reveals and demonstrations on the expo flooring.
Register for full convention passes by March 9 to avoid wasting $300. Expo-only passes are simply $75. Educational reductions can be found and educational full convention charges are simply $295.
HREF might be co-located with the Robotics Summit & Expo, the world’s premier industrial robotics improvement occasion. This multifaceted academic discussion board is devoted to addressing the problems concerned with the design, improvement, manufacture and supply of economic robots. Additionally co-located with these occasions is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier trade occasion for medical expertise professionals.
The entire agenda for HREF is under. You may also register right here.
We gathered in Boston this previous Could for 2 full days of expos, keynote periods, summits & rather more! Here is a brief recap of a few of the demos that attendees obtained to see.
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Wednesday, Could 10, 2023
Opening Keynote: Concept to Actuality: Commercializing Robotics Applied sciences
Howie Choset, Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon College
8:45 AM -9:30 AM
Turning a expertise developed inside a lab right into a profitable robotics firm is not any straightforward job. Howie Choset has achieved this a number of occasions with firms resembling Medrobotics (surgical robots), Hebi Robotics (modular robots) and Bito Robotics (robotic software program). Choset will share insights in regards to the robotics startups he based and finest practices for taking technological innovation from an thought to actuality.
Breakout Session: How customizable cobot design allows the success of your surgical robotics firm
Audio system: Gene Matthews, Senior Product Supervisor, Kollmorgen; Dr. Jindong Tan, President and Founder, Azure Medical Innovation
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Collaborative robots and AI have gotten more and more essential for surgeons to carry out repetitive and exact management duties. However surgical purposes have distinctive efficiency and certification necessities that aren’t obtainable within the present cobot market. This presentation goals to assist eradicate limitations to selecting personalized surgical robots, in addition to assist surgical robotics firms construct out their specs in order that they will give attention to scientific purposes. This speak may even handle vital engineering issues when specifying surgical utility wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical move, and certification necessities:
- What are the distinctive necessities for cobots in surgical purposes?
- How do key parts resembling frameless motors decide efficiency?
- How do cobots and AI-enabled imaginative and prescient affect surgical move?
- How personalized design can affect efficiency, improvement cycle, and certification
Breakout Session: Designing Surgeon-Degree Haptic Sensing for Surgical Robotics
Audio system: Robert Brooks, CEO, ForceN
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Pressure and torque sensing play key roles in enabling surgical robotics, together with on the tip of the instrument, trocar location/tissue contact, surgeon collaboration and the surgeon interface. Throughout this session, attendees will find out about 13 core specs for haptic sensors and the present state-of-the-art of what’s doable. This speak will element finest practices for implementing haptic sensors into surgical robots, together with:
- Thermal compensation and issues beneath surgical drapes
- Grounding & shielding inside ultra-compact robotic joints
- Engineered cable assemblies for high-flex, multidimensional, tight-bend utility
Breakout Session: Creating a New Era of Robots to Rework Care within the Dwelling
Audio system: Mike Dooley, CEO, Labrador Programs
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Throughout the globe, we live older for longer than ever earlier than. That is creating enormous calls for on caregivers, healthcare techniques and societies general, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a big function in serving to folks dwell extra independently for longer.
To realize this, robotics has to remodel in no less than two main methods. First, we have to develop robots that may scale to be reasonably priced for private, 1-to-1 use, which is a dramatic change from most industrial robots in the present day. Second, making practical robots function autonomously in properties requires fixing for a lot higher complexity, with way more numerous and difficult settings and use case situations.
On this presentation, Labrador Programs will stroll by the design and improvement of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the house, lighten the load of every day actions, lengthen the affect of caregivers, and finally assist us dwell extra independently as we age.
Breakout Session: Keys to Utilizing ROS 2 and Different Frameworks for Medical Robots
Audio system: Tom Amlicke, Software program Programs Engineer, MedAcuity
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
What’s the finest architectural method to make use of when constructing medical robots? Is it ROS, ROS 2 or different open-source or industrial frameworks? The reply is, “it relies upon.” On this presentation, we’ll discover engineering questions regarding the stage of concern, danger, design controls, and proof on a few completely different purposes of those frameworks. three hypothetical robotic techniques, we’ll discover these approaches:
- An utility primarily based on the da Vinci Analysis Equipment by regulatory clearance
- ROS as check instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steerage system
- Industrial off-the-shelve robotic arm used for a medical utility
Attending this session to learn to create trade-offs with these completely different architectural approaches and tips on how to validate the supposed makes use of of those architectural approaches to make sure a profitable submission package deal to your FDA, EMA, or different regulatory approval.
Breakout Session: Human Issue Design Concerns for Healthcare Robots
Audio system: Laura Birmingham, Affiliate Analysis Director, Emergo by UL; Alix Dorfman, Managing Human Components Specialist, Emergo by UL
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Though human elements engineering touches many aspects of general system design, at its core, the follow facilitates the interplay between people and expertise; it aligns a system’s design with people’ cognitive and bodily capabilities and limitations to provide a secure and satisfying person expertise. Regardless of the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences would possibly supply, there may be at all times a human component that requires consideration.
Throughout this speak, the presenters will focus on human elements implications and issues associated to the design of robotic healthcare expertise utilized in scientific and non-clinical environments. The speak will describe how robotics disrupts the 4 key elements of design analyzed when supporting product improvement: the system’s touchpoints, supposed customers, supposed use setting(s), and its supposed customers’ duties with the system. We’ll illuminate how such elements can and will affect design selections, in addition to finest practices when conducting analysis inside the regulated medical machine trade.
Breakout Session: Place suggestions for healthcare robotics
Audio system: Astrid Inventory, Product Supervisor, SIKO
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Healthcare robots are fairly completely different from their industrial counterparts. They don’t work in fenced-off areas, however moderately aspect by aspect with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and dimension necessities have change into extra vital in in the present day’s purposes. Dependable management of the robotic’s place, alignment and motion is crucial. Rotary and linear encoders allow the place suggestions of the motor and ship very important data to the management.
This speak will illustrate completely different measurement ideas (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify the benefits of magnetic measurement. It’s going to differentiate between absolute and incremental techniques and can focus on the completely different interfaces from primary incremental TTL to absolute interfaces like CANopen or BiSS-C. Attendees may even find out about tendencies and necessities for compact designs and extremely built-in options.
Breakout Session: Movement Management Tendencies for Healthcare Robots
Audio system: Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Technique, Efficiency Movement Gadgets
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
On this presentation, we’ll present an replace on current developments in movement management applied sciences, purposes, and merchandise which can be particularly essential for designers of medical analytical devices and working room gear.
The emphasis might be on cellular & surgical robotics, affected person remedy gear, and advances in actuators and place sensors which can be driving the subsequent technology of movement management purposes that ship extra accuracy, decrease remedy prices, and improved medical outcomes.
Prabh Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Technique at Efficiency Movement Gadgets, Inc. (PMD), will share his intensive expertise in digital movement management and can lead this dialogue designed to be fascinating for each engineers and medical practitioners alike.
Thursday, Could 11, 2023
Keynote: The Way forward for Surgical Robotics
Martin Buehler, International Head of Robotics R&D, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Johnson & Johnson, one of many world’s main healthcare firms, provides an inside have a look at the end-to-end improvement of its Monarch and Ottava robotics platforms, in addition to technique and innovation cadence throughout surgical robotics for MedTech.
Breakout Session: Launching Cellular Manipulation Robots in Hospitals
Audio system: Siddhartha Banerjee, Lead Robotics Engineer, Diligent Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Through the years, robots have made enormous strides within the cellular transport area in addition to warehouse automation. Nonetheless, cellular manipulation robots working round folks in semi-structured environments are nonetheless few and much between. Diligent Robotics is pushing the boundaries of socially-aware cellular manipulation by deploying robots into hospitals. This speak will cowl the challenges of a startup placing Moxi, a socially-aware cellular manipulation platform, right into a semi-structured setting with folks (i.e. hospitals). It’s going to embody classes realized and key takeaways in addition to insights into healthcare automation given the rise of COVID-19 and the affect of labor shortages.
Breakout Session: The Rise of Cobots in Healthcare
Audio system: Brad Porter, Founder and CEO, Collaborative Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Robotics is all about main change. To understand the true potential of robotics requires a daring imaginative and prescient pushed top-down that aligns R&D groups, operations, finance, and international IT, whereas additionally requiring a deep give attention to the small print of profitable particular person deployments. On this speak, Brad Porter will share his perspective on how quickly collaborative robots, with extra human-like functionality and a higher skill to collaborate with people, are coming and the brand new challenges and alternatives they are going to current in healthcare.
Breakout Session: From Product Concept to Robotic Healthcare Resolution – An Overview
Audio system: Tobias Luksch, Supervisor of R&D and Robotics, ITK Engineering
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
It’s a lengthy street with quite a few hurdles to take a medical robotic from an preliminary thought to a licensed product. To realize this, some essential questions have to be answered, resembling:
- What’s the supposed use?
- What’s the authorized framework?
- What are the primary dangers?
- Which strategies can be utilized to judge ideas, develop prototypes and to confirm the ultimate product?
This session will give an summary of the important steps required to show a product thought right into a market-ready healthcare robotic. Attendees might be supplied with sensible recommendation on tips on how to implement these steps, in addition to a European perspective on the regulatory elements of the product life cycle.
Session: Magnetic Robots for Analysis and Surgical procedure
Audio system: Giovanni Pittiglio, Analysis Fellow, Boston Youngsters’s Hospital – Harvard Medical College
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Robotics has the potential to democratize healthcare by complementing a surgeon’s expertise and guaranteeing constant high quality of care. With the goal of decreasing ache, discomfort and limiting disruptive interplay with the anatomy, comfortable magnetic robots are a novel, rising answer. This expertise can assure distant actuation, which equates to smaller dimension and softer units. This speak will introduce the potential for magnetic comfortable robots in overcoming the primary limitations of different approaches, resembling minimally-invasive surgical procedure which is troublesome to scale as a result of want for extremely expert personnel. The session will focus on a spread of purposes magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a give attention to analysis and surgical procedure. The primary challenges and future analysis objectives are launched and reviewed.
Breakout Session: Utilizing Emulation to Speed up the Improvement of Wearable Machines
Audio system: Josh Caputo, Founder, President & CEO, Humotech
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Emulation is an idea that might be acquainted to anybody engaged within the improvement of computing techniques (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & improvement teams around the globe are leveraging the method to develop extra customized and superior prosthetics, orthotics, exoskeletons, wearable robotics, and extra?
Wearable techniques are pricey to prototype and troublesome to good, so it’s essential for this burgeoning trade to reimagine R&D processes to unlock higher effectivity, throughput, and extra wildly profitable merchandise. Be taught extra in regards to the alternatives, challenges, and modern approaches being explored towards growing expertise that augments human biomechanics and will at some point be accessible to anybody trying to enhance their bodily efficiency.
