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The Horizon 2020 FAROS Project: Surgical Robots That Hear and Feel in Action
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.
Philipp Fürnstahl
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Kathleen Denis
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Mazda Farshad
Sep 1, 2024
1 min read
Watch it on vimeo
Award for the best open-source software
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.
Martin Huber
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Christopher E. Mower
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Tom Vercauteren
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Christos Bergeles
Jun 28, 2024
1 min read
Watch it on vimeo
Get the code from GitHub
8th FAROS Integration Week in Zurich
The OR-X in Balgrist recently hosted the final validation week for the robotic prototype developed by the international research consortium of the Horizon 2020 project FAROS (Functionally Accurate RObotic Surgery). The FAROS project, an EU-funded initiative, aims to improve functional accuracy through embedding physical intelligence in surgical robotics.
Philipp Fürnstahl
Apr 22, 2024
1 min read
FAROS as a success story of EU funded projects
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.
Christoph Laux
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Matthias Tummers
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Emmanuel Vander Poorten
Mar 13, 2024
1 min read
FAROS presentation and demonstration at a KU Leuven Forum-Evening
Matthias Tummers held a FAROS presentation during a Forum-Evening of the mechanical department of KU Leuven. FAROS presentation at a KU Leuven Forum-Evening The FAROS presentation was part of a panel of leading robotic applications.
Matthias Tummers
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Emmanuel Vander Poorten
Dec 7, 2023
1 min read
7th FAROS Integration Week in Paris
We are pleased to announce that the 7th FAROS Integration Week has been successfully conducted! Once more, the researchers from all universities gathered for an intense week to work together on the combination and integration of their latest research work in the FAROS platform.
Thibault Chandanson
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Guillaume Morel
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François Teyssere
Dec 1, 2023
1 min read
SpineGuard's DSG technology applied to robotics: podium presentation of the results at the Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS 2023)
100% of the drillings stopped within a corridor considered as clinically safe, which consists of 2 millimeters on each side of the interface between bone and the spinal canal
Thibault Chandanson
Sep 18, 2023
4 min read
Read the press release here!
Substantial FAROS contributions at CRAS 2023
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
Matthias Tummers
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Emmanuel Vander Poorten
Sep 14, 2023
2 min read
CRAS 2023
6th FAROS Integration Week in Paris
We are pleased to announce that the 6th FAROS Integration Week has been successfully conducted! Once more, the researchers from all universities gathered for an intense week to work together on the combination and integration of their latest research work in the FAROS platform.
Guillaume Morel
Jul 7, 2023
1 min read
Presentation on Robot-assisted Ultrasound Reconstruction at CARS 2023
On Thursday, Ruixuan Li successfully presented her paper on “Robot-assisted Ultrasound Reconstruction for Spine Surgery: from Bench-top to Pre-clinical study” at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2023) conference in Munich.
Ruixuan Li
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Kaat Van Assche
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Emmanuel Vander Poorten
Jun 23, 2023
1 min read
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