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FUTURA2020 project has been presented by Andrea Mariani (SSSA) during the 12th annual Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, June 23-26 2019 in London, with an oral presentation- “Ultrasound-based Safety Assessment during Moving Organ Tracking Towards In Vivo Focused Ultrasound Therapy”.

Results achieved within FUTURA and FUTURA2020 project has been presented by Andrea Cafarelli (SSSA) at the 6th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound (https://fusfoundation.org/), October 21-25 2018 in Reston, Virginia, with an oral presentation - “US guided Robotic Strategy for Continuous FUS treatment on moving organs”.

The 6th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery will be held at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy) from 12 to 14 of September, 2016.

Details about submission guidelines and contributions are reported in:

https://www.cras-eu.org/cras-2016/submissions

London, October 16th 2015 - FUTURA PROJECT has been awarded with the Best Abstract Prize @ EUFUS 2015 conference. See http://www.futuraproject.eu/Awards for details.

FUTURA project has been presented during the 27th International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT: http://smit2015.com/) @ Brno with an oral presentation - A COMPUTER ASSISTED ROBOTIC PLATFORM FOR HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND: FUTURA PROJECT - and a dissemination booth shared with transFUSIMO project.

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SOME PICTURES FROM THE EVENT

FUTURA project @ CRAS 2015

5th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery - 10-12 September 2015, Bruxelles, Belgium

Robotic surgery is one of the most appealing fields of modern robotics. With over 2 decades history, more than 2.000 systems installed worldwide and over 200.000 interventions conducted per annum; the field of robotic surgery is considered well-established. Despite these impressive figures and increasing popularity in research labs all over the world, the list of technological advances that made it into the operating room (OR) during this last decade is fairly limited. Long expected techniques such as 3D reconstruction, motion compensation, virtual guidance, haptic feedback, under study in many labs all over the planet did not make their appearance into the market yet.

CRAS seeks to give a clear view on the status and recent trends of assistive surgical robotic technologies. It aims to support and propose concrete measures to accelerate research and innovation in this field. CRAS originates from efforts to collaborate among European groups to achieve a critical mass in surgical robotics. As such the workshop continue on discussions started at ERF in Lyon and at ICRA in Karlsruhe, and previous meetings at Verona and Genoa. More in particular CRAS attempts to identify the steps necessary to stimulate cooperation between research and industry, across national borders and different surgical robotic projects to take advantage of the growing attention and support for research and exploitation in this interesting and growing field.

Further details @ http://www.cras-eu.org/

This workshop is traditionally supported by a number of EU surgical robotic projects, but the organizing committee expands to the broader surgical robotics community.