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The Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum (HREF), produced by Robotic Business Review’s dad or mum firm WTWH Media, gives engineers, engineering administration and enterprise professionals with knowledgeable steering, peer networking alternatives and hands-on entry to the newest robotics-enabling applied sciences. The Forum just lately introduced its full convention agenda for the May 10-11, 2023 occasion on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
These convention classes are designed to offer technical professionals the knowledge they should efficiently develop and manufacture healthcare robotics methods. The expo flooring will present attendees with direct entry to the newest design and growth 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 save lots of $300. Expo-only passes are simply $75. Academic reductions can be found and educational full convention charges are simply $295.
HREF will probably be co-located with the Robotics Summit & Expo, the world’s premier business robotics growth occasion. This multifaceted instructional discussion board is devoted to addressing the problems concerned with the design, growth, manufacture and supply of economic robots. Also co-located with these occasions is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier business occasion for medical know-how professionals.
The full agenda for HREF is beneath. You can even register right here.
We gathered in Boston this previous May for 2 full days of expos, keynote classes, summits & far 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 know-how developed inside a lab right into a profitable robotics firm isn’t any straightforward activity. Howie Choset has executed this a number of occasions with corporations comparable 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 concept to actuality.
Breakout Session: How customizable cobot design permits 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 essential for surgeons to carry out repetitive and exact management duties. But surgical functions 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 corporations construct out their specs in order that they’ll concentrate on medical functions. This discuss can even handle important engineering concerns when specifying surgical software wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical circulation, and certification necessities:
- What are the distinctive necessities for cobots in surgical functions?
- How do key elements comparable to frameless motors decide efficiency?
- How do cobots and AI-enabled imaginative and prescient influence surgical circulation?
- How personalized design can influence efficiency, growth 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 find out about 13 core specs for haptic sensors and the present state-of-the-art of what’s potential. This discuss 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 software
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 big calls for on caregivers, healthcare methods and societies general, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a big position in serving to individuals reside extra independently for longer.
To obtain this, robotics has to remodel in not 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 business robots at this time. Second, making useful robots function autonomously in properties requires fixing for a lot larger complexity, with much more various and difficult settings and use case situations.
In this presentation, Labrador Systems will stroll by the design and growth of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the residence, lighten the load of day by day actions, lengthen the influence of caregivers, and finally 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 the perfect 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 depends.” In this presentation, we’ll discover engineering questions in regards to the stage of concern, danger, design controls, and proof on a few completely different functions of those frameworks. Looking at three hypothetical robotic methods, we’ll discover these approaches:
- An software primarily based on the da Vinci Research Kit by regulatory clearance
- ROS as take a look at instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steering system
- Commercial 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 way 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 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 components engineering touches many sides of general system design, at its core, the observe facilitates the interplay between people and know-how; it aligns a system’s design with people’ cognitive and bodily capabilities and limitations to supply a protected and satisfying consumer expertise. Despite the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences would possibly supply, there’s all the time a human component that requires consideration.
During this discuss, the presenters will focus on human components implications and concerns associated to the design of robotic healthcare know-how utilized in medical and non-clinical environments. The discuss will describe how robotics disrupts the 4 key points of design analyzed when supporting product growth: the system’s touchpoints, supposed customers, supposed use atmosphere(s), and its supposed customers’ duties with the system. We will illuminate how such points can and may affect design choices, in addition to greatest practices when conducting analysis throughout the regulated medical machine business.
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 reasonably aspect by aspect with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and measurement necessities have grow to be extra important in at this time’s functions. Reliable management of the robotic’s place, alignment and motion is important. Rotary and linear encoders allow the place suggestions of the motor and ship very important info to the management.
This discuss will illustrate completely different measurement ideas (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify some great benefits of magnetic measurement. It will differentiate between absolute and incremental methods and can focus on the completely different interfaces from primary incremental TTL to absolute interfaces like CANopen or BiSS-C. Attendees can even find out about traits 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’ll present an replace on current developments in movement management applied sciences, functions, and merchandise which are particularly essential for designers of medical analytical devices and working room gear.
The emphasis will probably be on cellular & surgical robotics, affected person remedy gear, and advances in actuators and place sensors which are driving the subsequent technology of movement management functions that ship extra accuracy, decrease remedy 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 corporations, provides an inside have a look at the end-to-end growth 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 big 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 discuss 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 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
Speakers: 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. In this discuss, Brad Porter will share his perspective on how quickly collaborative robots, with extra human-like functionality and a larger means to collaborate with people, are coming and the brand new challenges and alternatives they are going to 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 street with quite a few hurdles to take a medical robotic from an preliminary concept to a licensed product. To obtain this, some essential questions have to be answered, comparable to:
- What is the supposed use?
- What is the authorized framework?
- What are the principle 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 will probably be supplied with sensible recommendation on the way to implement these steps, in addition to a European perspective on the regulatory points 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 lowering ache, discomfort and limiting disruptive interplay with the anatomy, delicate magnetic robots are a novel, rising resolution. This know-how can assure distant actuation, which equates to smaller measurement and softer units. This discuss will introduce the potential for magnetic delicate robots in overcoming the principle limitations of other approaches, comparable to minimally-invasive surgical procedure which is tough to scale as a result of want for extremely expert personnel. The session will focus on a spread of functions magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a concentrate on analysis and surgical procedure. The predominant 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 will probably be acquainted to anybody engaged within the growth of computing methods (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & growth teams around the globe 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 good, so it’s essential for this burgeoning business 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 creating know-how that augments human biomechanics and will in the future be accessible to anybody seeking to increase their bodily efficiency.