Dr. Lin Cao from the University of Sheffield has been kind enough to hold an online seminar on Surgical Robotics, specifically Flexible Endoscopic Surgical Robots. The online seminar is free of charge, and once a free ticket has been purchased, the meeting ID and passcode will be provided. The seminar is open to all students including those not a part of the Coding and Robotics Society, so if you're interested we'd love to have you!
Time: Wednesday 30th April, 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: Online
Abstract:
Minimizing the invasiveness and complications of surgery and diagnosis is a natural desire of patients and a clear trend in clinical practice and technology development. Flexible endoscopic surgical robots, accessing human body through natural orifices (e.g., mouth), are the key to reaching organs deep inside the body with reduced invasiveness and complications. However, the flexible nature and narrow accessing/working space of these devices present significant challenges to their design, modeling, actuation, sensing, control, and navigation. In this talk, Dr. Cao will share his team’s past and ongoing studies on flexible endoscopic surgical robots; these studies are potential to enable surgeons to (1) do more: being able to repair perforations without opening the patient body and thus do more procedures that are otherwise challenging; (2) feel more: being able to sense the interactions between the surgical instrument and surgical target; and (3) reach more: being able to reach areas in the body that are otherwise difficult
to reach.
Dr. Lin Cao's Biography:
Dr. Lin Cao joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Sheffield, as a Lecturer in Medical Robotics in June 2021. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, with research on compliant robotic systems and soft robotics. He was a visiting scholar in the Interactive Mechanisms and Mechatronics lab, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2013. Before joining the University of Sheffield, he worked in the medical robotics laboratory at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Research Fellow and a team leader. Dr. Cao’s main research interests include flexible endoscopic surgical robots, soft robots, and compliant robotic systems. Collaborating with clinicians and industrial collaborators, he strives to develop flexible/soft robotics technologies that enable medical diagnosis and treatment with minimal invasiveness.