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MICCAI tutorialFrom mini-invasive surgery to endocavitary / endoluminalinterventions – Part II: Next generation of surgical robots anddevicesDescriptionGoals: Robotics should enable surgery and diagnostic to be less and less invasive. Many prototypes havebeen developed and validated these last years: robots to manipulate instruments within the abdomenor thorax through small incisions; image-guided percutaneous devices for therapy, biopsy, etc.; mini-robots dedicated to exploration, diagnostic, and therapy through endocavitary or endoluminal access.The objective of the tutorial is to present the key theoretical issues and practical research topics thatare, or need to be, investigated.Due to the large area covered, the tutorial is organized in 2 sessions of 3 hours. This second sessionwill be more application-oriented and will present advanced works and trends for the design of the nextgeneration of surgical robots and devices, while the first session will cover rather theoretical aspectson sensory-based robot control for minimally invasive surgery (MIS).Provisional schedule• Research issues in image-guided mini-invasive procedures, Gabor Fichtinger (JHU)• Research issues in mini-robotics for diagnostic and therapy,Cesare Stefanini (SSSA, Pise)Responsible organiserEtienne Dombre, dombre@lirmm.frDetailed schedule• Research issues in image-guided mini-invasive procedures, Gabor Fichtinger ...