Schedule

Time (EST)  
8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:50 Edoardo Battaglia: Looking for Human-Centered Simplicity in Medical Haptics and Robotics
9:10 Xiaoguang Dong: Magnetically actuated implantable devices for biofluid transportation
9:30 Margaret Coad: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Soft Inflatable Wrist Exosuit
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Tayfun Efe Ertop: Shaping the Future of Endoscopic Surgery with Continuum Robotics
10:50 Giovanni Pittiglio: Magnetic Ball Chains for Cardiac Ablation
11:10 Keya Ghonasgi: Engineering Intelligent Physical Human-Exoskeleton Interactions
11:30 A word from the workshop sponsor: Quanser (with raffle!)
12:00 Lunch Break
1:30 Melody Su: Perception Complementarity in Robot Assisted Surgeries
1:50 Zonghe Chua: Minimally Invasive Telesurgery in the Era of Force Awareness and Feedback
2:10 Alan Kuntz: Building the surgical systems of the future: reducing invasiveness and increasing autonomy
2:30 Yash Chitalia: Multi-modal continuum robots: a new paradigm?
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Round Table
5:00 Closing Remarks & End of Workshop