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The Healthcare Robotics Engineering Discussion board (HREF), produced by The Robotic Report’s mum or dad firm WTWH Media, offers 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 just lately introduced its full convention agenda for the Could 10-11, 2023 occasion on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Heart.
These convention classes are designed to supply technical professionals the knowledge they should efficiently develop and manufacture healthcare robotics methods. The expo ground 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 ground.
Register for full convention passes by March 9 to save lots of $300. Expo-only passes are simply $75. Tutorial reductions can be found and tutorial full convention charges are simply $295.
HREF shall be co-located with the Robotics Summit & Expo, the world’s premier business 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 business occasion for medical expertise professionals.
The entire agenda for HREF is beneath. You can too register right here.
We gathered in Boston this previous Could for 2 full days of expos, keynote classes, summits & far more! Here is a brief recap of a number of the demos that attendees bought 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 isn’t any straightforward activity. Howie Choset has executed this a number of instances with corporations resembling Medrobotics (surgical robots), Hebi Robotics (modular robots) and Bito Robotics (robotic software program). Choset will share insights concerning the robotics startups he based and greatest practices for taking technological innovation from an concept to actuality.
Breakout Session: How customizable cobot design permits 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 vital for surgeons to carry out repetitive and exact management duties. However surgical purposes have distinctive efficiency and certification necessities that aren’t out there within the present cobot market. This presentation goals to assist remove boundaries to picking personalized surgical robots, in addition to assist surgical robotics corporations construct out their specs in order that they’ll concentrate on medical purposes. This speak can even handle important engineering concerns when specifying surgical software wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical movement, 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 influence surgical movement?
- How personalized design can influence 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 study 13 core specs for haptic sensors and the present state-of-the-art of what’s potential. This speak will element greatest practices for implementing haptic sensors into surgical robots, together with:
- Thermal compensation and concerns beneath surgical drapes
- Grounding & shielding inside ultra-compact robotic joints
- Engineered cable assemblies for high-flex, multidimensional, tight-bend software
Breakout Session: Growing a New Era of Robots to Rework Care within the House
Audio system: Mike Dooley, CEO, Labrador Methods
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Throughout the globe, we live older for longer than ever earlier than. That is creating big calls for on caregivers, healthcare methods and societies total, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a major position in serving to individuals reside extra independently for longer.
To realize this, robotics has to rework in at the very least 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 business robots at this time. Second, making practical robots function autonomously in properties requires fixing for a lot larger complexity, with way more various and difficult settings and use case situations.
On this presentation, Labrador Methods will stroll by way of the design and improvement of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the house, lighten the load of day by day actions, lengthen the influence of caregivers, and in the end assist us reside extra independently as we age.
Breakout Session: Keys to Utilizing ROS 2 and Different Frameworks for Medical Robots
Audio system: Tom Amlicke, Software program Methods Engineer, MedAcuity
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
What’s the greatest architectural strategy to make use of when constructing medical robots? Is it ROS, ROS 2 or different open-source or business frameworks? The reply is, “it relies upon.” On this presentation, we are going to discover engineering questions in regards to the degree of concern, threat, design controls, and proof on a few completely different purposes of those frameworks. Taking a look at three hypothetical robotic methods, we are going to discover these approaches:
- An software based mostly on the da Vinci Analysis Equipment by way of regulatory clearance
- ROS as check instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steerage system
- Business off-the-shelve robotic arm used for a medical software
Attending this session to discover ways to create trade-offs with these completely different architectural approaches and the right way to validate the meant makes use of of those architectural approaches to make sure a profitable submission bundle in 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 components engineering touches many sides of total system design, at its core, the observe facilitates the interplay between people and expertise; it aligns a system’s design with people’ cognitive and bodily capabilities and limitations to provide a protected and satisfying person expertise. Regardless of the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences may supply, there’s at all times a human aspect that requires consideration.
Throughout this speak, the presenters will talk about human components implications and concerns associated to the design of robotic healthcare expertise utilized in medical and non-clinical environments. The speak will describe how robotics disrupts the 4 key features of design analyzed when supporting product improvement: the system’s touchpoints, meant customers, meant use atmosphere(s), and its meant customers’ duties with the system. We’ll illuminate how such features can and may affect design selections, in addition to greatest practices when conducting analysis inside the regulated medical system business.
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 reasonably aspect by aspect with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and measurement necessities have turn into extra important in at this time’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 rules (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify the benefits of magnetic measurement. It would differentiate between absolute and incremental methods and can talk about the completely different interfaces from fundamental incremental TTL to absolute interfaces like CANopen or BiSS-C. Attendees can even study traits and necessities for compact designs and extremely built-in options.
Breakout Session: Movement Management Traits for Healthcare Robots
Audio system: Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Technique, Efficiency Movement Units
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
On this presentation, we are going to present an replace on latest developments in movement management applied sciences, purposes, and merchandise which can be particularly vital for designers of medical analytical devices and working room tools.
The emphasis shall be on cell & surgical robotics, affected person remedy tools, and advances in actuators and place sensors which can be driving the subsequent era 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 Units, Inc. (PMD), will share his in depth expertise in digital movement management and can lead this dialogue designed to be attention-grabbing 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 corporations, 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 Cell Manipulation Robots in Hospitals
Audio system: Siddhartha Banerjee, Lead Robotics Engineer, Diligent Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Over time, robots have made big strides within the cell transport area in addition to warehouse automation. Nonetheless, cell manipulation robots working round individuals in semi-structured environments are nonetheless few and much between. Diligent Robotics is pushing the boundaries of socially-aware cell manipulation by deploying robots into hospitals. This speak will cowl the challenges of a startup placing Moxi, a socially-aware cell manipulation platform, right into a semi-structured atmosphere with individuals (i.e. hospitals). It would embody classes realized and key takeaways in addition to insights into healthcare automation given the rise of COVID-19 and the influence 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 world IT, whereas additionally requiring a deep concentrate on 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 larger skill to collaborate with people, are coming and the brand new challenges and alternatives they may 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 concept to an authorized product. To realize this, some vital questions have to be answered, resembling:
- What’s the meant 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 concept right into a market-ready healthcare robotic. Attendees shall be supplied with sensible recommendation on the right way to implement these steps, in addition to a European perspective on the regulatory features of the product life cycle.
Session: Magnetic Robots for Analysis and Surgical procedure
Audio system: Giovanni Pittiglio, Analysis Fellow, Boston Kids’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 purpose 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 measurement and softer units. This speak will introduce the potential for magnetic comfortable robots in overcoming the primary limitations of other approaches, resembling minimally-invasive surgical procedure which is tough to scale because of the want for extremely expert personnel. The session will talk about a spread of purposes magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a concentrate on 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 shall be acquainted to anybody engaged within the improvement of computing methods (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & improvement teams all over the world are leveraging the strategy to develop extra personalised and superior prosthetics, orthotics, exoskeletons, wearable robotics, and extra?
Wearable methods are pricey to prototype and tough to excellent, so it’s essential for this burgeoning business to reimagine R&D processes to unlock larger effectivity, throughput, and extra wildly profitable merchandise. Be taught extra concerning the alternatives, challenges, and progressive approaches being explored towards growing expertise that augments human biomechanics and will in the future be accessible to anybody trying to enhance their bodily efficiency.
