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The laboratory for Surgical Planning and Robotic Cognition (SPARC) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Dr. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, investigates cognition guided robots for surgical assistance in minimally invasive procedures, intelligent and flexible surgical instruments, and intuitive interfaces between humans and robots in the operating room.

The SPARC laboratory conducts interdisciplinary research in close collaboration with national and international partners. We aim to contribute to building a healthcare system that enables optimal and personalized treatment of patients through targeted interactions between surgical experts and the next generation of minimally invasive surgical robots and assistance systems.

 

SPARC member Pit Henrich was awarded first place for his presentation at AIBEConf, held at the Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) in Erlangen. His research focuses on advancing robotic interaction with deformable tissue and objects (a critical challenge in surgical robotics) by providing str...

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We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest paper, “NeuroLens: Organ Localization Using Natural Language Commands for Anatomical Recognition in Surgical Training,” in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. In this work, we present NeuroLens, a system th...

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