Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center
Reshaping the Future of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment with Robotic Technologies
Directors of Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center
Reshaping the Future of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment with Robotic Technologies
With the advancement of AI, imaging and robotics technologies, novel robotic-assisted surgical procedures and therapeutic methods are transforming medical diagnosis and treatment solutions. Such technologies enhance the visualization, accessibility, and accuracy for the surgeons to carry out minimally invasive surgeries that are more accessible to patients worldwide.
The Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center brings the worlds of medicine and robotics together, focusing on technological innovation with a strong emphasis on clinical translation and direct patient benefits. The Center serves as a synergistic platform for clinicians, engineers and researchers from local and overseas universities, including ETH Zurich, Imperial College London and Johns Hopkins University, to work together and forge new ways to translate biomedical engineering research innovations into medical practices.
The Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center will support three research programmes:
- Endoluminal multi-scale robotic platforms for diagnostics and therapeutics, to develop a robotic endoscopic platform for advanced endoluminal surgery, a flexible endoluminal soft robot for gastrointestinal cancer treatment and a magnetic anchored and guided endoscope (MAGS) for single incision surgery.
- Magnetic-guided endoluminal robotic platform, to focus on magnetic-guided endoscope for complete small bowel examinations and the treatment of small bowel diseases, micro-/nanorobotics and clinical applications and magnetic-guided soft tethered capsule endoscopy for upper/lower gastrointestinal diagnostics.
- Image-guided robotic interventions to develop image-based automation in robotic surgery, high performance robotic systems for intra-operative MRI-guided interventions, image-guided robotic platform for minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery and a modular surgical robotic system for hybrid surgery.
In the long run, the Center will serve as a medical robotics incubation hub to foster medical technology start-ups, provide training in the areas of fully-integrated approaches and use of robotic technologies, pre-clinical design and intraoperative use of medical robots.
Project team members
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Prof. Samuel AuDirector of MRC
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Prof. Philip ChiuDirector of MRC