Surgical robotics conferences and meetings

Stanford Medical Innovation Conference on Medical Robotics was organized earlier this month by the Stanford Student Biodesign & Biopharma (SSB) at the James H. Clark Center, Stanford University.
"The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for today’s entrepreneurs and intellectuals to come together and discuss the past, present, and most importantly the future of medical and surgical automation."
Speakers included:

• Fred Moll (CEO of Hansen Medical, former CEO of Intuitive)
• Calvin Maurer (VP, Accuray)
• Catherine Mohr (Intuitive Surgical)
• William Bargar(inventor of ROBODOC)
• Pablo Garcia (SRI, lead integrator of Trauma Pod)
• SensAble Technologies
  
• prominent venture capitalists such as Jay Watkins (managing director of De Novo Ventures)
• fellows from Stanford, CMU, Johns Hopkins, UC Santa Cruz, GRASP at UPenn, UC Berkeley

Read some more about the event at the Everything Robotics blog.

A bit back in time, July 2009 the congressional caucus on robotics had a briefing on Medical and Healthcare Robotics. In addition to the invited talks, a number of demonstrations were available from MIT, JHU and CMU. Some pictures of the event and also video coverage.
Speakers included:

• Tandy Trower (General Manager, Microsoft Robotics Group): Healthcare Challenges and Robotic Solutions
• Maja Mataric (Director, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, USC): Socially Assistive Robotics: The promise and potential impact, with a focus on autism, elder care and stroke/traumatic brain injury
• Charles Remsberg (CEO, Hocoma, Inc.): Robot-Assisted Recovery & Rehabilitation
• Howie Choset (CTO & Co-founder, Cardiorobotics): Surgical and interventional robotics Faster, Better, Cheaper: The Future of Medical Robotic Technology
• You can also access Dan Jones (Director of External Affairs, Intuitive Surgical) previous presentation: Medical Robotics.

Next week it's the annual IEEE ICRA conference with loads of presentation on surgical robotics. Stay tooned!