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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND TALKS AT TRAINING COURSE
 
2010
 
May 26-28 2010 Germany
Umberto Scarfogliero presented ARAKNES during pHealth 2010 http://www.phealth2010.com/
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 150
 
 
April 29-30 2010 Switzerland
Prof. Hannes Bleuler presented the ARAKNES project during the 2010 ASRCC Congress- XVIII Symposium de l'Association Suisse Romande de Chirurgie Coelioscopique Genève, Forum Crédit Suisse, Avril 29-30, 2010
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: 100
 
 
April 14-17 2010 USA
Sir Alfred Cuschieri presented the ARAKNES project at The World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Washington: ‘Robotics Symposium: What’s New?’
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 500
 
 
April 12-14 2010 Egypt
Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts at Biovision
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 150
 
 
March 11-12 2010 Switzerland
Ricardo Beira and Evren Samur presented the ARAKNES project during the 9th Geneva International Robotic Surgery Course, at University Hospital of Geneva, March 11th and 12th, 2010.
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: 15
 
 
February 15-16 2010 Switzerland
Paolo Dario presented at “Micro-Nano-Bio Convergence Systems (MNBS) 2010 Workshop”
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
February 4-10 2010 USA
Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts at NEMB 2010
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 200
 
 
Jenuary 28 2010 Switzerland
All the EPFL Group presented the ARAKNES project during the FNTC Meeting (Fondation pour les nouvelles technologies chirurgicales), at EPFL, January 28th, 2010.
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: 30
 
 
Jenuary 28-29 2010 France
Mònica Mir, Roberto Lugo, Islam Bogachan Tahirbegi and Josep Samitier, Clinical applications of technologies in the field of cancer, Montpellier
Partners: UB
 
2009
 
Dicember 8 2009 France
Paolo Dario presented some of the ARAKNES concepts at Humanoids 2009
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 100
 
 
November 23-24 2009 Israel
Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts at the annual meeting of Israel Society for Neuroscience
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
November 1-7 2009 Japan
Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts at “WSK-TNg Summer School”
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 80
 
 
October 7-9 2009 Romania
International conference: SMIT 2009
Partners: USTAN
 
 
October 6 2009 Spain
XXIV Trobades cinetífiques de la mediterrànea
Partners: UB
 
 
October 5 2009 Italy
Andrea Peri presented ARAKNES during his presentation at MMVR Italy - Lecce
Partners: UNIPI Audience Size: 100
 
 
October 2 2009 Italy
Andrea Peri and Vincenzo Ferrari presented ARAKNES during the seminar at ISBEM “Omaggio alla realtà virtuale nella chirurgia minimamente invasive” - Mesagne
Partners: UNIPI Audience Size: 30
 
 
September 26 2009 Italy
Vincenzo Ferrari presented some  ARAKNES results during his lesson “How do I process: image guided surgical planning” in the EuroPACS Academy Course - Tirrenia
Partners: UNIPI Audience Size: 50
 
 
September 24 2009 Italy
Vincenzo Ferrari presented some  ARAKNES results during “Convegno Nazionale Sezione di Studio SIRM di Radiologia Informatica” - Tirrenia
Partners: UNIPI Audience Size: 100
 
 
September 2009 UK
Monica Mir, course in Biomedicine at Cranfield
Partners: UB
 
 
September 14 2009 France
Selene Tognarelli and Ali Sengul presented the ARAKNES concept during the 4th Summer School on Surgical Robotics in Montpellier, France.
Partners: SSSA, EPFL Audience Size: 70
 
 
September 3-4 2009 Switzerland
Laura Santos and Ali Sengul presented ARAKNES project during the Surgical Course in Geneva
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: 20
 
 
September 2-6 2009 Minnesota, USA
Minisymposium: Frontiers of Microrobotics in Endo-And Transluminal Therapy at 31st Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference (Chaired by Paolo Dario)
Partners: SSSA, CNRS Audience Size: >100
 
 
September 2-30 2009 Lucerne, Switzerland
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts during the 14th International Symposium on Robotics Research, ISRR 2009.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: >50
 
 
July 30 2009 Tokio, Japan
Selene Tognarelli presented the ARAKNES concept during the GMSI summer camp in Japan.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 20
 
 
June 26 2009 Germany
Vincenzo Ferrari presented some  ARAKNES results  in his presentation “Surgical simulation and planning”  during the course on the Digital Operating Room at CARS 2009 – Berlin
Partners: UNIPI Audience Size: 100
 
 
June 9 2009 Italy
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts during the “Plenary Lecture” of the Nano-Forum in Milan.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: >50
 
 
June 2-6 2009 Besançon, France
Pietro Valdastri presented the ARAKNES project during the Invited Lecture “New Frontiers in Capsule Endoscopy: Active Locomotion and Wireless Therapeutic Intervention”, France
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 40
 
 
May 22 2009 USA
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the “Iniziativa Toscana a New York” during the session “Pubblic health care”, New York, USA
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: >50
 
 
May 20-23 2009 France
Arianna Menciassi presented the ARAKNES project during the Invited talk on "Frontiers of Robotics in Surgery: single and multiple robotic capsules for endoluminal surgery", ESRR Nimes.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: >150
 
 
May 20 2009 Italy
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES concepts during “Convegno sull’Innovazione, la Ricerca e il Traferimento Tecnologico”, Livorno, Italy
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
May 12-17 2009 Japan
Kanako Harada presented ARAKNES during the workshop “Innovation on Medical Robotics” at ICRA 2009
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 80
 
 
May 10-11 2009 Tokio, Japan
The ARAKNES project has been presented by Prof. P. Poignet during a French-Japanese organized by the French embassy
Partners: CNRS Audience Size: 50
 
 
May 5-7 2009 Canada
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the Micro-Machine summit, Edmond, Canada
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: >150
 
 
May 2009 Japan
Prof. Dario presented the ARAKNES project during the international talk on "Frontier Research on Miniature Instruments and Machines for Endoluminal and Transluminal Surgery" in Japan.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
April 30 2009 Switzerland
EPFL PhD students presented the ARAKNES project at the EPFL Research Day 2009 (http://direction.epfl.ch/page29655-en.html)
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: NP
 
 
April 30 2009 Lausanne, Switzerland
The ARAKNES project has been presented by Prof. Paolo Dario at the EPFL Research Day.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
April 27 2009 Basel, Switzerland
The ARAKNES project and concepts have been presented at the 2nd European Conference for Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM).
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
April 19 2009 Switzerland
Participation of EPFL PhD students in the robotics surgery courses at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève were they presented the ARAKNES project (http://www.robotic-surgery-geneva.com/pageID_3943082.html)
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: NP
 
 
March - April 2009 China
Prof. Paolo Dario presented ARAKNES project and concepts at Zhejiang and Chongqing University during institutional visits.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: > 30
 
 
March - April 2009 Seoul, Korea
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at KIST University during institutional visits.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: > 30
 
 
March - April 2009 Tokio, Japan
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at Waseda University during institutional visits.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: > 30
 
 
March 13 2009 Bruxelles, Belgium
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project at EC-IST Program: Micro-Nano-Bio convergence Systems (MNBS): 3nd Concertation WS
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: > 50
 
 
March 10 2009 France
Lyon, Biovision
Prof. Paolo Dario presented ARAKNES project and concepts at World Life Sciences Forum.
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 20
 
 
February 3 2009 Tokio, Japan
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at 1st International Symposium of Global Center of Excellence for Mechanical Systems Innovation
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 100
 
2008
 
December 15 2008 Italy
Università Campus Biomedico, Rome
The ARAKNES project and concepts have been presented by Prof. Arianna Menciassi during the talk “Frontiers of Robotics in Surgery: an endoluminal approach with high potential for micro- and nano-robotics”
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 100
 
 
December 2 2008 Osaka, Japan
ARAKNES project and concepts have been presented by Prof. Paolo Dario at  1st International Symposium on Network Robot Systems
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 50
 
 
November 30 2008 Perignano, Pisa, Italy
Dott. Pietro Valdastri presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at “Nuovi e Vecchi Mestieri” event (category: innovation).
Partners: SSSA Audience Size: 100
 
 
November 13-14 2008 Switzerland
EPFL talk on "Medical Robotics at EPFL and ARAKNES project" at the "4th Geneva International Robotic Surgery Course"
In the University Hospital of Lausanne. The audience were around 10 surgeons mostly from European countries, they attended this course in order to start using Da Vinci system.
 
 
November 6 2008 Switzerland
Participation of EPFL PhD students in the robotics surgery courses at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève were they presented the ARAKNES Project (http://www.robotic-surgery-geneva.com/pageID_3943082.html)
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: NP
 
 
October 31 2008 Italy
“La medicina incontra la realtà virtuale: applicazioni in Italia della Realtà Virtuale e della Robotica in Medicina e Chirurgia”
Participation in the Congress “La medicina incontra la realtà virtuale: applicazioni in Italia della Realtà Virtuale e della Robotica in Medicina e Chirurgia”, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, organised by the Department of Surgery, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, MIMOS (Movimento Italiano Modellazione e Simulazione), SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and SICTeCA (Società Italiana di Chirurgia Tecnologica e Computer-Assistita). The ARAKNES project and concepts have been presented by Prof. Paolo Dario and by Prof. Arianna Menciassi during the I Session: La Robotica in Medicina e Chirurgia (the Robotics in Medicine and Surgery), and by Prof. Pietrabissa during the lecture “L’esperienza di endoCAS” (The endoCAS experience).
 
 
October 30 to November 1 2008 USA
Participation of EPFL PhD students in 2nd Annual UCSD Hands-On NOTES & Single Site Surgery Symposium where they presented the ARAKNES project (http://cme.ucsd.edu/notes/)
Partners: EPFL Audience Size: NP
 
 
October 27 2008 USA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
The ARAKNES project and concepts have been presented by Dr. Pietro Valdastri during the talk “New Frontiers in Capsule Endoscopy: Active Locomotion and Wireless Therapeutic Intervention”, Nashville, TN.
 
 
October 23-25 2008 China
Biomedical Engineering International Conference, BME2008
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the Biomedical Engineering International Conference, BME2008, Hong Kong.
 
 
September 22-26 2008 France
IEEE/RSJ 2008 (IROS)
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the IEEE/RSJ 2008 (IROS) International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice.
 
 
September 19-22 2008 Arizona USA
The second IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2008)
A mini-symposium about robotic systems ARAKNES-like has been organized  by Prof. Paolo Dario and Prof. Arianna Menciassi during the conference.
 
 
September 18-19 2008 Italy
I Congresso Nazionale “Le Nuove Tecnologie in Endoscopia”
The congress have been organized by Prof. Franco Mosca (UNIPI) with the objective to provide a scientific and cultural reference for physician,  radiologists, surgeon, and engineers, working in the field of surgical endoscopy. The ARAKNES project and concepts have been presented by prof. Alfred Cuschieri during the lecture “What’s new in endoscopic surgery”, and by prof. Andrea Pietrabissa during the lecture “Computer Assisted Surgery”.
 
 
August 28-30 2008 Austria
SMIT 2008
Prof. Arianna Menciassi presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the SMIT 2008, 20th International Conference of Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, Vienna.
 
 
August 27 2008 Japan
ASMeW International Symposium
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the ASMeW International Symposium, Tokyo, that was a symposium organized by The International NanoScience Community.
 
 
July 21 2008 Canada
30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Vancouver.
 
 
July 10-11 2008 Switzerland
ARES Project meeting
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the ARES Project meeting, Zurich.
 
 
June 25-28 2008 Switzerland
Robotics Science and Systems Conference
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the 2008 Robotics Science and Systems Conference, ETH Zurich.
 
 
June 16-17 2008 South Korea
Korea-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the Korea-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT, Seoul, that was a 2-day Cooperation Event co-organised by the European Commission and Korea authorities.
 
 
June 11-14 2008 Sweden
16th International Congress of the EAES
Prof.ssa Arianna Menciassi presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the 16th International Congress of the EAES, Stockholm.
 
 
June 1-3 2008 Spain
Fatronik Research Centre
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES Project and concepts at the Fatronik Research Centre, San Sebastian.
 
 
May 19-23 2008 USA
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008)
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, California, USA.
 
 
May 6-7 2008 United Kingdom
Inaugural Workshop for the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics Surgery RSG
Prof. Paolo Dario presented the ARAKNES project and concepts at the inaugural Workshop for the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics Surgery RSG (Royal Geographical Society), Imperial College, London. The congress has been organized by Prof. Lord Darzi and Prof. Yang (ICL).
 
 
INDUSTRY NEWS
 
 
PATENTS
Italian patent: SISTEMA ROBOTICO ENDOLUMINARE.
Patent Reference: FI2008A000201
 
 
 
 
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