IEEE Surgical Robotics on Clubhouse

Description

This is an official club for the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics.
The impact of Surgical Robotics and the interest of Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) members in this field have been demonstrated in the last few years by several successful events organized virtually at all Robotics Conferences, and by the successful Special Issues of the IEEE RAS Transactions and Magazine.

Today, a strong need is felt to make further progress that would launch Surgical Robotics beyond current achievements and further disseminate their use and increase their acceptance. Research efforts are needed to:
* improve the simplicity of use and thus the medical acceptance of current robots (autonomous, semi-autonomous and teleoperated) for minimally invasive surgery;
* design new mechatronic hand-held tools capable of augmenting the performance of surgeons;
* develop new endoscopic robots;
* investigate new avenues of application in micro and nano surgery, including cell surgery, and so forth.

For all the above reasons, this club is devoted to address the many new and open scientific and technical challenges of Surgical Robotics. We hope this platform could increase the momentum of this growing research area; help focusing research activities within RAS; establish links with other technical communities within IEEE (such as EMBS, and others) and outside (for example the communities of surgeons and of economists interested in the acceptance of surgical robotics); create relations with industry.

We highly encourage the robotic community to join this club and participate in our conversations to promote the surgical robotics community.