News

• Doctoral defense – Theodosia Lourdes Thomas

  • Published March 18th, 2023
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  SRL doctoral candidate defends thesis.

• SRL strikes again at PiHC!

  • Published January 22nd, 2023
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  Dr. Heunis and Dr. Mohanty awarded PIHC grants.

• Doctoral defense – Mert Kaya

  • Published September 27th, 2022
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  SRL doctoral candidate defends thesis.

• NWO Demonstrator Grant – VIPER

  • Published September 24th, 2022
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  Sarthak Misra has received funding for developing robots for vascular interventions.

• Flux Robotics receives TTT MedTech Crossover Voucher

  • Published July 1st, 2022
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  Accelerating healthcare’s transition to accessible surgical robots

• SonoMag – UT Entrepreneurial Challenge 2022

  • Published June 22nd, 2022
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  Best prototype award

• Surgical Robotics Laboratory part of the Horizon Europe Grant – RĒGO

  • Published April 1st, 2022
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  RĒGO – Pushing the limit of robotics cognition

• Surgical Robotics Lab wins big at Pioneers in Healthcare (PIHC) Awards

  • Published January 25th, 2022
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  Dr. Heunis and Dr. Sikorski awarded PIHC grants

• NWO OTP grant – FlexSMART

  • Published December 16th, 2021
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  NWO OTP grant awarded to Surgical Robotics Laboratory members.

• Doctoral defense – Sumit Mohanty

  • Published November 26th, 2021
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  SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis.

• Award at Engineering Mechanics symposium

  • Published November 3rd, 2021
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  SRL doctoral candidate awarded best PhD presentation award.

• NWO Take-Off Grant for SRL

  • Published July 8th, 2021
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  SRL Post-Doctoral Fellow awarded the NWO Take-Off Grant

• PhD Defense – Fouzia Khan

  • Published May 11th, 2021
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  SRL doctoral candidate defended her thesis.

• PhD Defense – Christoff M. Heunis

  • Published April 9th, 2021
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  SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis

• Crazy Research Project – SyMBiOBot

  • Published January 13th, 2021
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  Grant awarded to SRL members

• ERC Proof of Concept Grant – RAMSES

  • Published January 11th, 2021
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  Sarthak Misra has received his fourth ERC grant (RAMSES).

• PhD Defense – Jakub Sikorski

  • Published September 25th, 2020
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  SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis

• IRONSperm: A biological microrobot for targeted therapy

  • Published July 17th, 2020
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  Islam S. M. Khalil paper published in Science Advances.

• Sarthak Misra wins prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

  • Published January 6th, 2020
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  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 resear...

• PhD Defense – Gustaaf J. Vrooijink

  • Published October 28th, 2019
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  SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis

• PhD Defense – Federico Ongaro

  • Published July 8th, 2019
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  SRL doctoral candidate defended his thesis

• SRL featured in De wereld van morgen (NPO 1)

  • Published June 27th, 2019
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  Microrobotics research conducted within SRL highlighted on TV.

• SRL wins big at PIHC awards

  • Published December 14th, 2018
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  Members of Surgical Robotics Lab were awarded two grants.

• Inaugural lecture – Sarthak Misra

  • Published November 29th, 2018
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  Prof. Sarthak Misra's inaugural lecture.

• PhD Defense – Navid Shahriari

  • Published November 22nd, 2018
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  SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis

• ERC Proof of Concept Grant – INSPIRE

  • Published January 5th, 2018
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  Sarthak Misra has received the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant for the INSPIRE project.

• SRL featured in primetime media

  • Published August 7th, 2017
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  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 July 24th, 2017
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  Sarthak Misra has received the Big-on-Small Award at MARSS 2017

• SRL featured in UT Nieuws and MIRA magazine

  • Published November 16th, 2016
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  SRL featured in UT Nieuws article and MIRA magazine

• SRL members win best poster and best conference paper awards at BioRob 2016

  • Published June 29th, 2016
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  Federico Ongaro and Guus Vrooijink win the best poster and best conference paper awards at BioRob 2016.

• Sarthak Misra wins prestigious VIDI Grant

  • Published May 16th, 2016
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  Sarthak Misra has been awarded the prestigious Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI Grant.. This grant will be used for the SAMURAI research projec...

• EDEN2020 – Neurosurgical Robotic System

  • Published August 16th, 2015
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  SRL is awarded Horizon2020 ICT grant (EDEN2020).

• PhD Defense – Momen Abayazid

  • Published August 4th, 2015
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  SRL doctoral candidate defends his thesis

• SRL in BCN newletter

  • Published June 1st, 2015
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  SRL research introduced to the University of Groningen community.

• SRL featured in VPRO TV series

  • Published May 12th, 2015
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  SRL featured in TV series 'De Volmaakte Mens’

• UT Media Prize Award

  • Published January 5th, 2015
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  Extensive publicity on MagnetoSperm has been awarded the first place for the UT Media Prize Award.

• Sarthak Misra wins prestigious ERC Starting Grant

  • Published December 30th, 2014
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  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 pr...

• Best conference paper at BioRob 2014

  • Published November 1st, 2014
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  Magnetic control of self-propelled microjets under ultrasound image guidance

• MagnetoSperm

  • Published July 1st, 2014
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  SRL has developed a biologically-inspired microrobot which resemble swimming sperm cells.