ANDREA PASSERINI OF UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO, OUR TANGO PROJECT PARTNER, IS CO-ORGANISING A WORKSHOP ON HYBRID HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION IN SURGERY AT THE HAMLYN SYMPOSIUM IN JUNE. THE WORKSHOP IS CO-ORGANISED WITH PROF. MARCO A. ZENATI, PROFESSOR OF SURGERY OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds including but not limited to computer science, AI/ML, robotics, surgery and expertise to explore the research areas for the future development of supervised control, shared control and machine learning in surgical artificial intelligence and robotics.

The learning outcomes of the workshop are:

• Discussing the clinical needs for the new era of surgical robots;
• Analysing the strategies and HCI principles that promote rich and diverse interactions between humans and machines;
• Identifying hybrid learning and decision making strategies that can maximize the performance of the human-machine team;
• Identifying potential pitfalls and ensuring that trustworthy and ethical hybrid decision-making systems are developed;
• Understanding how design, materials, and control interfaces can help in realizing effective human supervision of surgical robotic systems in terms of multimodal human-robot interface;
• Highlighting the most recent AI applications for vision and robot control applications for the future generation of surgical robots and how human experience can help to develop new paradigms for supervised control;
• Updating on the state-of-the-art commercial surgical robots and providing insights into their potential future;
• Learning how vision and tactile information, together with AI-based elaboration of the information, learning process, and control strategies

More details and updated programme available at:

Hybrid Human-Machine Interaction in Surgery – Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics