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The Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum (HREF), produced by The Robot Report’s guardian firm WTWH Media, supplies engineers, engineering administration and enterprise professionals with knowledgeable steerage, peer networking alternatives and hands-on entry to the newest robotics-enabling applied sciences. The Forum lately introduced its full convention agenda for the May 10-11, 2023 occasion on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
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. Academic reductions can be found and educational 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 instructional discussion board is devoted to addressing the problems concerned with the design, improvement, manufacture and supply of economic robots. Also co-located with these occasions is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier trade occasion for medical expertise professionals.
The full agenda for HREF is under. You may also register right here.
We gathered in Boston this previous May for 2 full days of expos, keynote periods, summits & rather more! Here’s a brief recap of a few of the demos that attendees obtained to see.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Opening Keynote: Idea to Reality: Commercializing Robotics Technologies
Howie Choset, Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
8:45 AM -9:30 AM
Turning a expertise developed inside a lab right into a profitable robotics firm isn’t any straightforward job. Howie Choset has achieved this a number of instances with firms corresponding to 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 thought to actuality.
Breakout Session: How customizable cobot design allows the success of your surgical robotics firm
Speakers: Gene Matthews, Senior Product Manager, 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. But surgical purposes have distinctive efficiency and certification necessities that aren’t accessible within the present cobot market. This presentation goals to assist remove limitations to picking custom-made surgical robots, in addition to assist surgical robotics firms construct out their specs in order that they’ll give attention to medical purposes. This speak can even deal with essential engineering concerns when specifying surgical utility wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical stream, and certification necessities:
- What are the distinctive necessities for cobots in surgical purposes?
- How do key parts corresponding to frameless motors decide efficiency?
- How do cobots and AI-enabled imaginative and prescient affect surgical stream?
- How custom-made design can affect efficiency, improvement cycle, and certification
Breakout Session: Designing Surgeon-Level Haptic Sensing for Surgical Robotics
Speakers: Robert Brooks, CEO, ForceN
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Force 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. During this session, attendees will study 13 core specs for haptic sensors and the present state-of-the-art of what’s attainable. This speak will element greatest practices for implementing haptic sensors into surgical robots, together with:
- Thermal compensation and concerns below surgical drapes
- Grounding & shielding inside ultra-compact robotic joints
- Engineered cable assemblies for high-flex, multidimensional, tight-bend utility
Breakout Session: Developing a New Generation of Robots to Transform Care within the Home
Speakers: Mike Dooley, CEO, Labrador Systems
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Across the globe, we live older for longer than ever earlier than. This is creating large calls for on caregivers, healthcare techniques and societies total, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a major function in serving to individuals reside extra independently for longer.
To obtain this, robotics has to rework in no less than two main methods. First, we have to develop robots that may scale to be inexpensive for private, 1-to-1 use, which is a dramatic change from most business robots at present. Second, making practical robots function autonomously in houses requires fixing for a lot larger complexity, with way more numerous and difficult settings and use case situations.
In this presentation, Labrador Systems will stroll via the design and improvement of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the dwelling, lighten the load of day by day actions, prolong the affect of caregivers, and in the end assist us reside extra independently as we age.
Breakout Session: Keys to Using ROS 2 and Other Frameworks for Medical Robots
Speakers: Tom Amlicke, Software Systems Engineer, MedAcuity
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
What is one of the best architectural method to make use of when constructing medical robots? Is it ROS, ROS 2 or different open-source or business frameworks? The reply is, “it depends.” In this presentation, we are going to discover engineering questions in regards to the degree of concern, danger, design controls, and proof on a few completely different purposes of those frameworks. Looking at three hypothetical robotic techniques, we are going to discover these approaches:
- An utility primarily based on the da Vinci Research Kit via regulatory clearance
- ROS as check instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steerage system
- Commercial off-the-shelve robotic arm used for a medical utility
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 package deal to your FDA, EMA, or different regulatory approval.
Breakout Session: Human Factor Design Considerations for Healthcare Robots
Speakers: Laura Birmingham, Associate Research Director, Emergo by UL; Alix Dorfman, Managing Human Factors Specialist, Emergo by UL
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Although human elements engineering touches many sides of total 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 supply a secure and satisfying person expertise. Despite the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences may supply, there may be at all times a human ingredient that requires consideration.
During this speak, the presenters will focus on human elements 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 elements 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 will illuminate how such elements can and may affect design selections, in addition to greatest practices when conducting analysis throughout the regulated medical gadget trade.
Breakout Session: Position suggestions for healthcare robotics
Speakers: Astrid Stock, Product Manager, 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 relatively aspect by aspect with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and measurement necessities have change into extra essential in at present’s purposes. Reliable management of the robotic’s place, alignment and motion is crucial. Rotary and linear encoders allow the place suggestions of the motor and ship important info to the management.
This speak will illustrate completely different measurement ideas (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify some great benefits of magnetic measurement. It will differentiate between absolute and incremental techniques and can focus on the completely different interfaces from fundamental incremental TTL to absolute interfaces like CANopen or BiSS-C. Attendees can even study tendencies and necessities for compact designs and extremely built-in options.
Breakout Session: Motion Control Trends for Healthcare Robots
Speakers: Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Strategy, Performance Motion Devices
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
In this presentation, we are going to present an replace on current developments in movement management applied sciences, purposes, and merchandise which are particularly vital for designers of medical analytical devices and working room tools.
The emphasis shall be on cellular & surgical robotics, affected person remedy tools, and advances in actuators and place sensors which are driving the subsequent era of movement management purposes that ship extra accuracy, decrease therapy prices, and improved medical outcomes.
Prabh Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Strategy at Performance Motion Devices, 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, May 11, 2023
Keynote: The Future of Surgical Robotics
Martin Buehler, Global 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 Mobile Manipulation Robots in Hospitals
Speakers: Siddhartha Banerjee, Lead Robotics Engineer, Diligent Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Over the years, robots have made large strides within the cellular transport area in addition to warehouse automation. However, cellular manipulation robots working round individuals 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 atmosphere with individuals (i.e. hospitals). It will embrace 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
Speakers: Brad Porter, Founder and CEO, Collaborative Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Robotics is all about main change. To notice 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 give attention to the main points of profitable particular person deployments. In this speak, Brad Porter will share his perspective on how quickly collaborative robots, with extra human-like functionality and a larger capacity to collaborate with people, are coming and the brand new challenges and alternatives they’ll current in healthcare.
Breakout Session: From Product Idea to Robotic Healthcare Solution – An Overview
Speakers: Tobias Luksch, Manager of R&D and Robotics, ITK Engineering
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
It is an extended highway with quite a few hurdles to take a medical robotic from an preliminary thought to a licensed product. To obtain this, some vital questions have to be answered, corresponding to:
- What is the meant use?
- What is the authorized framework?
- What are the primary dangers?
- Which strategies can be utilized to guage ideas, develop prototypes and to confirm the ultimate product?
This session will give an outline of the important steps required to show a product thought 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 elements of the product life cycle.
Session: Magnetic Robots for Diagnosis and Surgery
Speakers: Giovanni Pittiglio, Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Robotics has the potential to democratize healthcare by complementing a surgeon’s abilities and guaranteeing constant high quality of care. With the goal of decreasing ache, discomfort and limiting disruptive interplay with the anatomy, gentle magnetic robots are a novel, rising resolution. This expertise can assure distant actuation, which equates to smaller measurement and softer units. This speak will introduce the potential for magnetic gentle robots in overcoming the primary limitations of other approaches, corresponding to minimally-invasive surgical procedure which is troublesome to scale as a result of want for extremely expert personnel. The session will focus on a variety of purposes magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a give attention to prognosis and surgical procedure. The principal challenges and future analysis objectives are launched and reviewed.
Breakout Session: Using Emulation to Accelerate the Development of Wearable Machines
Speakers: 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 techniques (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & improvement teams around the globe are leveraging the method to develop extra personalised and superior prosthetics, orthotics, exoskeletons, wearable robotics, and extra?
Wearable techniques are expensive to prototype and troublesome to excellent, so it’s essential for this burgeoning trade to reimagine R&D processes to unlock larger effectivity, throughput, and extra wildly profitable merchandise. Learn extra concerning the alternatives, challenges, and revolutionary 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.