{"id":83,"date":"2017-07-04T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonsforlife\/?p=83"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:00:18","slug":"hamlyn-symposium-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonsforlife\/2017\/07\/04\/hamlyn-symposium-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlyn Symposium 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I attended a day of the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics<\/a> in London.\u00a0This is an annual conference organised by the Research Centre where I spent five years of my career before moving to Kent \u2013 The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery<\/a> at Imperial College London. As ever, the event was impeccably well-organised and professional and featured leading speakers from the world of medical robotics, including both clinicians and engineers. As this was the 10th<\/sup> Hamlyn Symposium, and so something of a celebration, Hamlyn Centre alumni had assembled from various corners of the world, and so it was a nice chance to see some old faces.<\/p>\n

It was also great to see some British medical robotics industrial activity in the exhibition. Cambridge Consultants<\/a> has set up a nice demonstration of a surgical system<\/a>\u00a0for cataracts. As far as I’m aware this isn\u2019t a clinical system, but something they had created to show off what they could do. They were a bit cagey about who they had actually been developing medical robotics work for, although anyone with an interest in the field can probably take a good guess.<\/p>\n

Some robotic endomicroscopy work was on display again at the Surgical Robotics Challenge held as part of the Symposium. Last year we won best video (and had a follow-up paper<\/a>), this year the endomicroscopy team sadly didn’t grab a prize but still helped to spread the word. You can see examples in this youtube video,<\/a>\u00a0skip to 3.25 to see the robotic endomicroscopy system in action, and some comments from Khushi Vyas, a student at Imperial who I work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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