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Last April, a significant milestone was achieved when our team of researchers successfully integrated, tested, and validated the FAROS robotic system under realistic conditions in the OR-X over the course of a week. This Integration Week marked the culmination of years of excellent and focused collaboration with our international partners.
Congratulations to Martin Huber, Christos Bergeles, Tom Vercauteren, and Christopher Mower for winning the award for the best open-source software at the Hamlyn Symposium’s Workshop: Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies.
The work aims at community building for the KUKA LBR surgical robot and enables accelerated research and deployment with production level software. The core software is implemented in C++ with first-class ROS 2 integration and thus allows interfacing from other programming languages such as Python, Rust, you name it.
Emmanuel Vander Poorten and Christoff Laux were invited to give a presentation during the European Robotics Forum (ERF) in Rimini, Italy. FAROS was elected as a success story from EU funded projects, following a very selective evaluation process.
16 members of the FAROS project were present at CRAS 2023 held at Sorbonne University in Paris. With 8 extended abstracts published including 7 oral presentation and 1 poster displayed, FAROS largely contributed to the success of the 12th edition of the Conference on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery
