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On July 10th 2025, SPARC member Lennart Karstensen successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Simulation-based Control Learning for Patient-Specific Autonomous Navigation for Endovascular Interventions in the Real World”. The examination committee consisted of Prof. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich (FAU)...

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...

We are pleased to share that our paper, “LUDO: Low-Latency Understanding of Deformable Objects using Point Cloud Occupancy Functions,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. In this work, we present LUDO, a method for low-latency understanding of deformable object...

A new research project coordinated by Prof. Dr. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich aims to harness artificial intelligence to support the early detection of endometriosis using ultrasound imaging. The interdisciplinary team is developing machine learning models that can automatically identify subtle patterns ...

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...

We are thrilled to announce that our Postdoctoral Researcher Dr.-Ing. Ramy Zeineldin has received the Best Dissertation 2023/2024 award for his PhD thesis titled "Deep Multimodality Image-Guided System for Assisting Neurosurgery" from the faculty of informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KI...

We have a new doctor! Congratulations to Dr.-Ing. Christian Marzi who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Capacitive Spatial Exteroception in Minimally Invasive Continuum Robots" as a collaborative work between KIT and SPARC at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The examination committee consist...

SPARC member Dr.-Ing. Paul Maria Scheikl gave a talk and a practical lab session on reinforcement learning in robot-assisted surgery at the summer school on control of surgical robots (COSUR) in Verona, Italy. The COSUR summer school is held every two years and targets PhD students interested to the...

On June 6th 2024, SPARC member Paul Maria Scheikl successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Learning Visuomotor Policies for Cooperative Robot-Assisted Surgery" with the overall grade “with distinction”. The examination committee included Prof. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich (FAU), Prof. Axel Krieg...

We are thrilled to announce that our recent paper "Movement Primitive Diffusion: Learning Gentle Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects" has been published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Movement Primitive Diffusion (MPD) combines the versatility of diffusion-based imitatio...