CFP - CRAS&COSUR are coming

The 14th edition of CRAS will take place at the University of Lisbon, in Lisbon, Portugal from September 10 to 12, 2025.

Surgical robotics aims at improving surgical practice and its outcome, by providing the surgical team with new tools for improved safety, reproducibility, gestural performance and ergonomics. Millions of patients have benefitted from robotically assisted surgical procedures during the past three decades, with a recent explosion of market cleared systems for a wide variety of procedures, after years of a quasi-monopolistic situation dedicated to a very limited set of indications. Still a lot is to be done in terms of research, with three concurrent aims:
•    extending the benefit of robot-assisted manipulation to new indications for a wider impact on health;
•    simplifying concepts and devices to spread surgical robots to more clinical centers across the World – and not only in rich countries’ centers of excellence
•    opening new possibilities to allow surgeons inventing new procedures, notably through miniaturization, minimal invasiveness, and partial autonomy.
In this 14th edition, communications are expected to relate advances in the following fields: virtual and augmented reality techniques applied to training, planning and assisted guidance; new techniques to introduce effective haptic feedback; new devices, new technologies and procedures for less invasive surgery and to facilitate the execution of complex surgical tasks; and artificial intelligence for planning, guidance and autonomous operations.
Extended abstracts (2 pages) discussing new technologies for computer/robot assisted surgery are solicited.

Paper submission:  

A 2 pages extended abstract template is available at the conference website: https://cras-eu.org/cras-2025/ Submission deadline: April 30th, 2025.

FURTHER

COSUR 2025 Summer School on Robot-assisted Surgery

To help training the next generation of researchers in robotic surgery, we are delighted to announce the Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots (COSUR 2025), a doctoral summer school to be held before CRAS from September 8th to 10th. COSUR 2025 is jointly organized by the Altair Robotics Lab at University of Verona, the Robot-Assisted Surgery research group of KU Leuven, the Biomedical Robotics Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology, the LASIGE research group from the University of Lisbon as well as a plurality of European research projects on surgical robotics.

COSUR 2025 aims to give a broad overview of the challenges of robot-assisted surgery. It will focus on the integration of control, sensing, and machine intelligence to introduce students to the main concepts of autonomous functions in robotic surgery. We aim at showing students how to leverage the increased accuracy of robots and medical imaging in the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools that can support advanced procedures.
The school will address many technical themes among which:
•    General concepts of robot-assisted surgery: medical and engineering viewpoints
•    Autonomous control in robotic surgery
•    Teleoperation and Haptics
•    Image-Guided Surgery
•    Machine learning and reasoning
The school will include medical lectures, to present specific case studies of robotic surgery and to define the medical context in which robotic surgery is being used. The main themes will be addressed with tutorial presentations given by leading experts in the field and by the coordinators of recently funded EU-projects.
Students will be grouped in teams that will develop a project related to the school topics during the last days of the school. The projects will be evaluated by the school lecturers and each student will receive a certificate of attendance, to obtain credits from their university.

Please check the website for updates on the detailed technical program and list of speakers.