Surgical Robotics Lab

Surgical Robotics Lab

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Projects

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    • Needle steering
    • Continuum robotics
    • Medical microrobotics
Needle steering (6)
  • Haptic shared control for steering needles
    Dutch Technology Foundation
    • Completed
    • From January 2011 until January 2015
    • Dutch Technology Foundation

    We use shared control techniques by providing haptic feedback to steer flexible devices.

  • MR-compatible robotics
    Netherlands Enterprise Agency - 2010-2025
    • Active
    • Netherlands Enterprise Agency - 2010-2025

    SRL develops MR-compatible robotic systems for interventions in the prostate.

  • Modeling needle-tissue interactions
    Dutch Technology Foundation - 2009-2021
    • Active
    • Dutch Technology Foundation - 2009-2021

  • CT-guided robotics
    Northern Netherlands Provinces Alliance
    • Completed
    • From January 2013 until January 2018
    • Northern Netherlands Provinces Alliance

  • Ultrasound-guided flexible needle steering
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
    • Completed
    • From January 2010 until January 2020
    • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

  • Enhanced ultrasound imaging
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
    • Completed
    • From January 2013 until January 2019
    • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

Continuum robotics (5)
  • Compliant design of continuum manipulators
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
    • Active
    • From January 2018 until January 2025
    • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

  • Magnetically-actuated bio-inspired soft robots
    European Research Council
    • Active
    • From January 2018 until January 2028
    • European Research Council

  • Magnetically-actuated steerable robots
    European Research Council
    • Active
    • From January 2014 until January 2025
    • European Research Council

    Advanced Robotics for Magnetic Manipulation (ARMM) system could assist clinicians with the magnetic actuation of endovascular catheters.

  • Multi steerable catheters for cardiac interventions
    Dutch Technology Foundation
    • Active
    • From January 2012 until January 2016
    • Dutch Technology Foundation

    SRL develops systems to control steerable instruments to compensate for beating heart motion.

  • Real-time shape sensing for flexible instruments
    Dutch Technology Foundation - 2011-2020
    • Active
    • Dutch Technology Foundation - 2011-2020

Medical microrobotics (4)
  • Acoustically powered microrobotics
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
    • Active
    • From January 2018 until January 2025
    • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

  • Flagellar and helical soft micro-agents
    • Active
    • From January 2019 until January 2025

  • Magnetic microrobotics
    European Research Council - 2010-2020
    • Active
    • European Research Council - 2010-2020

    Magnetic microrobots provide opportunities in the fields of biological micromanipulation and minimally invasive surgery.

  • Ultrasound-guided control of micro-sized agents
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
    • Active
    • Since January 2014
    • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

    There exists at least three main challenges that stand between the utilization of microrobotic systems in magnetic-based targeted drug delivery.

Surgical Robotics Lab

Surgical Robotics Lab