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Enhancing Surgical Dexterity with Micro-Surgical Robots

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Event
  • Session
  • Thursday, 29 November 2018
  • 19:29 - 19:29
  • Duration: 16 mins
  • Publication date: 05 Dec 2018
  • Location: Watson Watt, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Re-engineering Human Sight

About the session

We will present 3 different micro-surgical robots aiming to improve surgical capabilities in ophthalmic surgery, especially with regards to regenerative therapeutics delivery. We will discuss the development of robots, navigation algorithms, and augmented reality systems that assist in surgical decision making intraoperatively.

Keywords:
  • 3D printing
  • DNA
  • VR
  • cells
  • dexterity
  • eye
  • eyeball
  • gene therapy
  • hypotony
  • imaging
  • macular
  • mechatronics
  • micro-surgical robots
  • microlitre therapeutic delivery
  • microrobotic systems
  • ocular
  • opthalmology
  • optic nerve
  • protein
  • regenerative therapy
  • retina
  • retinal therapy
  • robot design
  • robotic microprecision
  • robots
  • stem cell
  • virtual reality
  • vision

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Speaker

  • Christos Bergeles

    Christos Bergeles

    King's College London

    Dr Christos Bergeles (King’s), Senior Lecturer, directs the “Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab” whose mission is to develop micro-surgical robots that deliver regenerative therapies deep inside the human body.Dr Bergeles has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and holds i4i NIHR funding for the development of instrumentation that delivers stem cells to diseased retinal layers. His active grant funding as PI is > £2.5M, which supports his team of 6 PhD students and 4 PDRAs.He has co-authored > 40 articles in top-tier conferences and journals, and his research has been cited > 800 times. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and the IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation. He is regularly invited as an invited speaker at international workshops and schools.His team and he are very active in public engagement and patient involvement activities, and regularly deliver keynotes to broad engineering audiences (e.g. at the IET Savoy Place, attracting more than 200 participants), but also children and lay members of the public (e.g. Pint of Science, and Secret Cinema in collaboration with the Royal Institution).
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