During the MEDICA medical technology trade fair in Düsseldorf the KUKA Innovation Award was decided on the topic of “Healthy Living”. Robotic talents from all over the world applied with their ideas and an international jury selected the five best concepts. The final teams presented their ideas to a broad specialist audience at MEDICA 2019. […]
The STORM Lab team attended 2019 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) which took place in Macau, November 4-8. The work “Control of Magnetic Endoscopes under Anatomical Uncertainties” comparing two different control approaches for magnetic levitation was presented by Lavinia. Aleks and Giovanni presented two posters at the workshop about “Intelligent Robot […]
BBC Digital Planet reporter Madeleine Finlay visited the International Robotics Conference and discussed with Joe Norton, a postdoctoral researcher part of the team involved with the robotic colonoscopy platform about our research and innovations. Listen here from 20:35 (6 minute total)
STORM Lab engineers have helped show it is technically possible to guide a tiny robotic capsule inside the colon to take micro-ultrasound images. Known as a Sonopill, the device could one day replace the need for patients to undergo an endoscopic examination, where a semi-rigid scope is passed into the bowel – an invasive procedure […]
The STORM Lab team are presenting three works at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 20-24. The three papers investigated different control strategies for the Magnetic Flexible Endoscope (MFE), aimed to enhance the performance of the platform. In particular, Model Predictive Control (Bruno), Magnetic Levitation (Giovanni and Lavinia), Autonomous Navigation […]
Engineers have developed a prototype endoscope which they say could cut the cost of manufacture from £80,000 to just £40. The press release is available in full here: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4402/redesigning_cancer_screening_technology
This week Wednesday (13 March) Prof. Sitti, the Director of the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany, visited Leeds for the monthly Robotics@Leeds Seminar. Previously, Prof. Sitti was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is one of the world leading researchers in Micro/Bio Robotics. Metin was able […]
Robotic tentacles to help surgeons operate inside the body is among several new research programmes at Leeds supported by European funding. The University of Leeds has received more than €19m in funding from the prestigious and highly selective European Research Council (ERC) during 2018. The figure places Leeds in the top 10 recipients of ERC […]
Cancer Research UK have awarded STORMLAB UK 1 of 19 early detection award grants to enable the first-in-human trials of the robotic magnetic flexible endoscope. The system aims to provide advances towards painless colorectal cancer diagnostic screening, surveillance and intervention. CRUK continue to invest in early detection as one of their strategic priorities. In the […]
Rapid technological innovation is bringing human-robot interaction ever closer to our daily lives, meaning society needs a standard framework to address the ethical and safety issues that arise. [Link to Original Article] From University of Leeds News The question of how to develop such a framework will be debated by leading northern robotics and artificial intelligence researchers, MEPs and representatives […]