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The Healthcare Robotics Engineering Discussion board (HREF), produced by Robotic Enterprise Evaluate’s mother or father firm WTWH Media, gives engineers, engineering administration and enterprise professionals with knowledgeable steering, peer networking alternatives and hands-on entry to the most recent robotics-enabling applied sciences. The Discussion board lately introduced its full convention agenda for the Might 10-11, 2023 occasion on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Middle.
These convention periods are designed to offer technical professionals the data they should efficiently develop and manufacture healthcare robotics programs. The expo ground will present attendees with direct entry to the most recent 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 will likely 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 business robots. Additionally co-located with these occasions is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier trade occasion for medical know-how professionals.
The entire agenda for HREF is beneath. You may also register right here.
We gathered in Boston this previous Might for 2 full days of expos, keynote periods, summits & way more! This is a brief recap of a number of the demos that attendees received to see.
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Wednesday, Might 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 know-how developed inside a lab right into a profitable robotics firm isn’t any simple process. Howie Choset has completed this a number of instances with corporations corresponding to 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 greatest practices for taking technological innovation from an thought 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 necessary for surgeons to carry out repetitive and exact management duties. However surgical functions 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 corporations construct out their specs in order that they’ll deal with medical functions. This speak can even deal with vital engineering issues when specifying surgical utility wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical movement, and certification necessities:
- What are the distinctive necessities for cobots in surgical functions?
- How do key parts corresponding to frameless motors decide efficiency?
- How do cobots and AI-enabled imaginative and prescient influence surgical movement?
- How custom-made design can influence efficiency, improvement cycle, and certification
Breakout Session: Designing Surgeon-Stage Haptic Sensing for Surgical Robotics
Audio system: Robert Brooks, CEO, ForceN
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Power 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 issues beneath surgical drapes
- Grounding & shielding inside ultra-compact robotic joints
- Engineered cable assemblies for high-flex, multidimensional, tight-bend utility
Breakout Session: Growing a New Technology 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 programs and societies general, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a major position in serving to folks dwell extra independently for longer.
To attain this, robotics has to remodel in at the 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 industrial robots in the present day. Second, making useful 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 the design and improvement of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the residence, lighten the load of every day actions, lengthen the influence 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 Methods Engineer, MedAcuity
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
What’s the greatest 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 degree of concern, threat, design controls, and proof on a few completely different functions of those frameworks. three hypothetical robotic programs, we’ll discover these approaches:
- An utility primarily based on the da Vinci Analysis Package by regulatory clearance
- ROS as take a look at instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steering 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 how one can validate the meant makes use of of those architectural approaches to make sure a profitable submission bundle on 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 Elements Specialist, Emergo by UL
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Though human components engineering touches many aspects 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 person expertise. Regardless of the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences would possibly provide, there’s all the time a human component that requires consideration.
Throughout this speak, the presenters will focus on human components implications and issues associated to the design of robotic healthcare know-how 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 surroundings(s), and its meant customers’ duties with the system. We are going to illuminate how such features can and will affect design selections, in addition to greatest practices when conducting analysis inside the regulated medical system 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 reasonably aspect by aspect with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and measurement necessities have change into extra vital in in the present day’s functions. 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 info to the management.
This speak will illustrate completely different measurement rules (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify the benefits of magnetic measurement. It’ll differentiate between absolute and incremental programs and can focus on 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 Tendencies 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’ll present an replace on current developments in movement management applied sciences, functions, and merchandise which might be particularly necessary for designers of medical analytical devices and working room gear.
The emphasis will likely be on cell & surgical robotics, affected person remedy gear, and advances in actuators and place sensors which might be driving the following technology of movement management functions that ship extra accuracy, decrease therapy prices, and improved medical outcomes.
Prabh Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Technique at Efficiency Movement Units, Inc. (PMD), will share his intensive expertise in digital movement management and can lead this dialogue designed to be attention-grabbing for each engineers and medical practitioners alike.
Thursday, Might 11, 2023
Keynote: The Way forward for Surgical Robotics
Martin Buehler, World 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 house in addition to warehouse automation. Nevertheless, cell manipulation robots working round folks 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 surroundings with folks (i.e. hospitals). It’ll 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 deal with 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 capability 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 highway with quite a few hurdles to take a medical robotic from an preliminary thought to a licensed product. To attain this, some necessary questions should be answered, corresponding to:
- What’s the meant use?
- What’s the authorized framework?
- What are the principle dangers?
- Which strategies can be utilized to guage 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 will likely be supplied with sensible recommendation on how one can 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 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 purpose of lowering ache, discomfort and limiting disruptive interplay with the anatomy, smooth magnetic robots are a novel, rising answer. This know-how can assure distant actuation, which equates to smaller measurement and softer gadgets. This speak will introduce the potential for magnetic smooth robots in overcoming the principle limitations of other approaches, corresponding 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 variety of functions magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a deal with 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 will likely be acquainted to anybody engaged within the improvement of computing programs (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & improvement teams all over the world are leveraging the method to develop extra personalised and superior prosthetics, orthotics, exoskeletons, wearable robotics, and extra?
Wearable programs are pricey to prototype and tough 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. Study extra in regards to the alternatives, challenges, and modern approaches being explored towards creating know-how that augments human biomechanics and will someday be accessible to anybody seeking to enhance their bodily efficiency.
