COSUR 2025: Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots

To help training the next generation of researchers in robot-assisted surgery, we are delighted to announce the 2025 Summer School on Robot-Assisted Surgery (COSUR 2025), a doctoral summer school to be held from September 8th to 10th 2025, before the CRAS conference. COSUR 2025 is jointly organized by the Robot-Assisted Surgery research group of KU Leuven, the Altair Robotics Lab at University of Verona, the Biomedical Robotics Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology, the LASIGE research group from the University of Lisbon as well as a plurality of European research projects on medical robotics.

COSUR 2025 aims to give a broad overview of the challenges of robot-assisted surgery. It will focus on the integration of control, sensing, and machine intelligence to introduce students to the main concepts of autonomous functions in robotic surgery. We aim at showing students how to leverage the increased accuracy of robots and medical imaging in the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools that can support advanced procedures.

The school will address many technical themes among which:

General concepts of robot-assisted surgery: medical and engineering viewpoints
Autonomous control in robotic surgery
Teleoperation and haptics
Image-guided surgery
Machine learning and reasoning

The school will include medical lectures, to present specific case studies of robotic surgery and to define the medical context in which robotic surgery is being used. The main themes will be addressed with tutorial presentations given by leading experts in the field and by the coordinators of recently funded EU-projects.

Check below for more details on the technical program and list of speakers and their lectures/workshops! Also, please check here for general information.

General Information

Registration Fees

The deadline for early bird registration is July 31, 2025, 23:59 WEST.

The deadline for regular registration is September 3, 2025, 23:59 WEST.

	Early Bird Before July 31st, 2025	Regular After July 31st, 2025
Master's and PhD Students	250€	300€
Post-Doctoral Researchers	300€	350€
Professionals and Others	400€	450€

The registration fee includes:

Access to all lectures/workshops
Conference materials
Coffee breaks and lunches
Social dinner

Certificate of Attendance

At the end of the school it will be possible to get a certification of attendance. The certification can be used by students to obtain the corresponding ECTS from their PhD courses, or to comply with any other requests by their home university.

Venue

Centro Tecnológico Reynaldo dos Santos, FMUL

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Campo Grande, 1649-026, Lisbon, Portugal

Technical Program & Social Events

Last edited: September 5, 2025

Time	Monday September 8	Tuesday September 9	Wednesday September 10
09:30 - 10:30	Introduction & Ice-Breaking	Elena De Momi	Arianna Menciassi
10:30 - 11:00	Leonardo de Mattos	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Leonardo de Mattos	Yinoussa Adagolodjo	João Pedro Barreto
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break	Yinoussa Adagolodjo	João Pedro Barreto
12:00 - 13:00	Cedric Girerd	Dominic Jones	Round Table & Closing
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30	Riccardo Muradore	Hugo Pinto Marques
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break	Taha Chikhaoui
16:00 - 16:30	Maria Bencivenga	Taha Chikhaoui
16:30 - 17:00	Maria Bencivenga	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Jaydev Prataprai Desai	Marco A. Zenati
18:00 - 19:00
19:00 - 20:30	Boat Tour on Lisbon’s Tagus River @Sardinha do Tejo Boarding point: Santo Amaro dock, door 3 Meeting time: 18h45	Social Dinner @Pharmacia (Restaurant in city center Lisbon)
20:30 - 21:30
21:30 - 22:30
22:30 - 23:30