Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics:
Scientific and Technical Foundations of a new Interdisciplinary Field for Research, Medical Application and Industry

Prof. Paolo Dario
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy
dario@sssup.it

Dr. HF Machiel Van der Loos
Palo Alto Health Care System, Rehabilitation R&D Center
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1200 USA
vdl@stanford.edu

Speakers

1. George Bekey, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2. Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
3. Deirdre Meldrum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
4. Russ H. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
5. H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, VA Rehabilitation R&D Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
6. Harry Asada, MIT, Boston, MA, USA
7. Chris Atkenson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
8. Darwin Caldwell, Salford University, UK
9. Maria Chiara Carrozza, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
10. Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
11. Masakatsu Fujie, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
12. Eugenio Guglielmelli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
13. Shigeo Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
14. Koji Ikuta, Nagoya University, Japan
15. Blake Hannaford, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
16. Mamoru Mitsuishi, University of Tokyo, Japan
17. Yoshihiko Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
18. Aristides Requicha, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
19. Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
20. Takanori Shibata, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

Abstract

Biomedical applications of robotics are attracting increasing attention by the community of Robotics and Automation, but also by other research communities, such as the Biomedical Engineering community. The objectives of the proposed workshop are, first, to introduce the overall field and state of the art by presenting and classifying in a unifying manner the wide range of topics (theoretical, technological and applicative) that contribute to form today the broad area of Bio-Robotics; and, second, to discuss in depth the fundamental engineering problems that should be addressed to allow a more systematic and rapid growth of the field. In particular, the workshop will address three main application domains: surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics and bio-inspired robotics.

Website
http://www-arts.sssup.it/WSBioRobICRA04

Registration

To attend this workshop, register for workshop T-WF-3 by advance registration deadline.

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