News

June 2024

Best paper award - Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics Our paper, Steerable Balloon Endoscopes for Transcatheter Intracardiac Procedures, earned the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, London, UK. more info.

October 2023

Finalist for best paper award - IROS 2023 Our paper, Hybrid Tendon and Ball Chain Continuum Robots for Enhanced Dexterity in Medical Interventions, was a finalist for the Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design, at IROS 2023 more info.

September 2023

Two-armed surgical robot prototype targets pediatric brain tumors Jim Hammerand, Managing editor of Mass Device’s Medical Design & Outsourcing at WTWH Media LLC, talks about our work, Using robotics to move a neurosurgeon’s hands to the tip of their endoscope, just published on Science Robotics, . more info.

June 2023

Best paper award - Hamlyn Symposium Our paper, Workspace Characterization for Hybrid Tendon and Ball Chain Continuum Robots, received the Best Paper Award at the 2023 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, London, UK. more info.

May 2023

Robotics Summit and Expo Our postdoc Giovanni Pittiglio was invited at the Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston, MA, to talk about Magnetic Robots for Diagnosis and Surgery. more info.

April 2023

Best paper award Our paper, Closed-form Kinematic Model and Workspace Characterization for Magnetic Ball Chain Robots received the Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Symposium on Medical Robotics, Atlanta, GA. more info.

March 2023

American College of Surgeons meeting, 2023 Our PI, Pierre Dupont, gave the Keynote Address entitled, Therapeutic Principles for Bridging the Surgeon/Engineer Culture Gap in MedTech at the American College of Surgeons meeting, 2023 ACS Surgeons & Engineers, A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation in Chicago, IL. more info.

February 2023

Study UK Alumni Awards Our postdoc Giovanni Pittiglio won the British Council StudyUK Alumni Awards in the Science and Sustainability category. more info.

May 2022

Harvard Magazine Our work on medical robots is featured in Harvard Magazine. more info.

February 2022

Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions Our invited review of the field is published by the Proceedings of the IEEE. more info

November 2021

Science Robotics review of the decade’s advances in medical robotics Leading researchers in medical robotics identify the field’s collective accomplishments. more info

September 2020

Autonomous Robots Are Coming to the Operating Room Our work is featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything. more info