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Doctoral defense – Zihan Wang
Published on March 16th, 2025
SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis.
MERCURY – NWO VICI Grant
Published on March 3rd, 2025
Sarthak Misra received the Vici grant for developing magnetically-actuated robotic systems for advanced microsurgery.
PhD Defense – Zhengya Zhang
Published on January 6th, 2025
SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis.
PhD defense - Chuang Li
Published on March 25th, 2024
SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis
ERC Proof of Concept Grant – APOLLO
Published on January 18th, 2024
Professor Sarthak Misra Awarded Fifth ERC Grant for Spearheading Surgical Robotics Advancements.
Collaborative microrobotics research featured in public media
Published on October 29th, 2023
Doctoral defense – Theodosia Lourdes Thomas
Published on March 18th, 2023
SRL doctoral candidate defends thesis.
SRL strikes again at PiHC!
Published on January 22nd, 2023
Dr. Heunis and Dr. Mohanty awarded PIHC grants.
Doctoral defense – Mert Kaya
Published on September 27th, 2022
SRL doctoral candidate defends thesis.
NWO Demonstrator Grant – VIPER
Published on September 24th, 2022
Sarthak Misra has received funding for developing robots for vascular interventions.
Flux Robotics receives TTT MedTech Crossover Voucher
Published on July 1st, 2022
Accelerating healthcare’s transition to accessible surgical robots
SonoMag – UT Entrepreneurial Challenge 2022
Published on June 22nd, 2022
Best prototype award
Surgical Robotics Laboratory part of the Horizon Europe Grant – RĒGO
Published on April 1st, 2022
RĒGO – Pushing the limit of robotics cognition
Surgical Robotics Lab wins big at Pioneers in Healthcare (PIHC) Awards
Published on January 25th, 2022
Dr. Heunis and Dr. Sikorski awarded PIHC grants
NWO OTP grant – FlexSMART
Published on December 16th, 2021
NWO OTP grant awarded to Surgical Robotics Laboratory members.
Doctoral defense – Sumit Mohanty
Published on November 26th, 2021
SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis.
Award at Engineering Mechanics symposium
Published on November 3rd, 2021
SRL doctoral candidate awarded best PhD presentation award.
NWO Take-Off Grant for SRL
Published on July 8th, 2021
SRL Post-Doctoral Fellow awarded the NWO Take-Off Grant.
PhD Defense – Fouzia Khan
Published on May 11th, 2021
SRL doctoral candidate defended her thesis.
PhD Defense - Christoff M. Heunis
Published on April 9th, 2021
SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis
Crazy Research Project – SyMBiOBot
Published on January 13th, 2021
Grant awarded to SRL members.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant – RAMSES
Published on January 11th, 2021
Sarthak Misra has received his fourth ERC grant (RAMSES).
PhD Defense - Jakub Sikorski
Published on September 25th, 2020
SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis.
IRONSperm: A biological microrobot for targeted therapy
Published on July 17th, 2020
Islam S. M. Khalil paper published in Science Advances.
Sarthak Misra wins prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant
Published on January 6th, 2020
Sarthak Misra has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth 2.35 million euros. This grant will be used for the MAESTRO research project.
PhD Defense - Gustaaf J. Vrooijink
Published on October 28th, 2019
SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis
PhD Defense - Federico Ongaro
Published on July 8th, 2019
SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis
SRL featured in De wereld van morgen (NPO 1)
Published on June 27th, 2019
Microrobotics research conducted within SRL highlighted on TV.
SRL wins big at PIHC awards
Published on December 14th, 2018
Members of Surgical Robotics Lab were awarded two grants.
Inaugural lecture - Sarthak Misra
Published on November 29th, 2018
Prof. Sarthak Misra's inaugural lecture.
PhD Defense - Navid Shahriari
Published on November 22nd, 2018
SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis
ERC Proof of Concept Grant – INSPIRE
Published on January 5th, 2018
Sarthak Misra has received the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant for the INSPIRE project.
SRL featured in primetime media
Published on August 7th, 2017
Research conduced within SRL featured in primetime Dutch media (TV and radio).
Sarthak Misra has received the Big-on-Small Award at MARSS 2017
Published on July 24th, 2017
Sarthak Misra has received the Big-on-Small Award at MARSS 2017.
SRL featured in UT Nieuws and MIRA magazine
Published on November 16th, 2016
SRL featured in UT Nieuws article and MIRA magazine
SRL members win best poster and best conference paper awards at BioRob 2016
Published on June 29th, 2016
Federico Ongaro and Guus Vrooijink win the best poster and best conference paper awards at BioRob 2016.
Sarthak Misra wins prestigious VIDI Grant
Published on May 16th, 2016
Sarthak Misra has been awarded the prestigious Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI Grant.. This grant will be used for the SAMURAI research project.
EDEN2020 - Neurosurgical Robotic System
Published on August 16th, 2015
SRL is awarded Horizon2020 ICT grant (EDEN2020).
PhD Defense - Momen Abayazid
Published on August 4th, 2015
SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis.
SRL in BCN newletter
Published on June 1st, 2015
SRL research introduced to the University of Groningen community.
SRL featured in VPRO TV series
Published on May 12th, 2015
SRL featured in TV series 'De Volmaakte Mens’.
UT Media Prize Award
Published on January 5th, 2015
Extensive publicity on MagnetoSperm has been awarded the first place for the UT Media Prize Award.
Sarthak Misra wins prestigious ERC Starting Grant
Published on December 30th, 2014
Sarthak Misra has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros. This grant will be used for the ROBOTAR research project.
Best conference paper at BioRob 2014
Published on November 1st, 2014
Magnetic control of self-propelled microjets under ultrasound image guidance
MagnetoSperm
Published on July 1st, 2014
SRL has developed a biologically-inspired microrobot which resemble swimming sperm cells.