Keynote Speakers

Sunil K. Agrawal

Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
Columbia University,
New York, NY 10027, USA.

Doina Pisla

Professor,
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN)
Romania
Director - Research Center of Robots Simulation and Testing

Jean-Charles Le Huec

Professor,
Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology,
Bordeaux, University Hospital
France

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	**Title: Rehabilitation Robotics: Improving Everyday Human Functions** Abstract: Neural disorders, old age, and traumatic brain injury limit activities of daily living. Robotics can be used in novel ways to characterize human neuromuscular responses and retrain human functions. Columbia University Robotics and Rehabilitation (ROAR) Laboratory designs innovative mechanisms/robotics with these goals and performs scientific studies to improve human functions such as standing, walking, stairclimbing, trunk control, head turning, and others. Human experiments have targeted individuals with stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, ALS,and elderly subjects. The talk will provide an overview of these robotic technologies and scientific studies performed with them to demonstrate strong potential of rehabilitation robotics to improve human functions and quality of life of people.
	Title: new challenges in robotic surgery for cancer treatment In parallel with the continuous evolution and discovery of new medical techniques, the evolution of technology has enabled the introduction of robotic systems in medical applications. Surgical robotics is one of the most important subdomains of medical robotics, with a high potential worldwide, and its development is correlated with increased life expectancy. The already achieved surgical robotic systems for cancer treatment have shown a continuous evolution in this challenging and difficult research field. The latest advancements in technology and medicine have successfully increased survival rates and quality of life for many cancer patients. The European Research Strategies are considering cancer as one of the most important areas in need of fundamental innovation emphasizing the curative role of Precision Surgery and the importance of personalized instrumentation in the fight for higher survival rates and quality of life. Therefore, it is very important to develop European relevant solutions in the field on oncologic surgery in the form of new smart and adaptive robotic medical devices that will overcome the current frontiers through a new paradigm focused on personalised, minimally invasive interventions that can maximize the therapeutic effects.
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Title: Rehabilitation Robotics: Improving Everyday Human Functions

Abstract: Neural disorders, old age, and traumatic brain injury limit activities of daily living. Robotics can be used in novel ways to characterize human neuromuscular responses and retrain human functions. Columbia University Robotics and Rehabilitation (ROAR) Laboratory designs innovative mechanisms/robotics with these goals and performs scientific studies to improve human functions such as standing, walking, stairclimbing, trunk control, head turning, and others. Human experiments have targeted individuals with stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, ALS,and elderly subjects. The talk will provide an overview of these robotic technologies and scientific studies performed with them to demonstrate strong potential of rehabilitation robotics to improve human functions and quality of life of people.

Title: new challenges in robotic surgery for cancer treatment

In parallel with the continuous evolution and discovery of new medical techniques, the evolution of technology has enabled the introduction of robotic systems in medical applications. Surgical robotics is one of the most important subdomains of medical robotics, with a high potential worldwide, and its development is correlated with increased life expectancy. The already achieved surgical robotic systems for cancer treatment have shown a continuous evolution in this challenging and difficult research field. The latest advancements in technology and medicine have successfully increased survival rates and quality of life for many cancer patients. The European Research Strategies are considering cancer as one of the most important areas in need of fundamental innovation emphasizing the curative role of Precision Surgery and the importance of personalized instrumentation in the fight for higher survival rates and quality of life. Therefore, it is very important to develop European relevant solutions in the field on oncologic surgery in the form of new smart and adaptive robotic medical devices that will overcome the current frontiers through a new paradigm focused on personalised, minimally invasive interventions that can maximize the therapeutic effects.

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