COSUR 2025: Summer School on Robot-Assisted Surgery
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.
Students will be grouped in teams that will develop a project related to the school topics during the last days of the school. The projects will be evaluated by the school lecturers and each student will receive a certificate of attendance, to obtain credits from their university.
Check below for more details on the technical program and list of speakers! Also, please check here for practical information.
In this fifth edition of COSUR we will offer a deep dive across the most recent advancements in medical robotics.
Open to PhD students and Researchers in relevant fields as robotics, AI, medicine, ethics. See you there!
All sessions will take place at the University of Lisbon. In-person attendance required.
General Information
Costs and fees
| Master’s and PhD students | 250 € |
| Post-doctoral researchers | 300 € |
| Professionals and others | 500 € |
The fee includes:
- Access to all sessions
- Conference materials
- Coffee breaks and lunches
- Social dinner
- Payment instructions will be sent via email.
Certification 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 to any other requests by their home university.
Location
Centro Tecnológico Reynaldo dos Santos, FMUL
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Campo Grande, 1649-026, Lisbon, Portugal
Organization and Partners
Prof. Emmanuel Vander Poorten
Dr. Beatriz Farola Barata
Prof. João Bimbo
Prof. Paolo Fiorini
Prof. Riccardo Muradore
Dr. Andrea Roberti
Dr. Leonardo de Mattos
Technical Program
Last edited: May 18, 2025
| Monday, September 8 | Tuesday, September 9 | Wednesday, September 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30–10:30 | Introduction & Ice-breaking | Elena De Momi | Hugo Pinto Marques |
| 10:30–11:30 | Leonardo de Mattos | Jaydev Desai | Arianna Menciassi |
| 11:30–12:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 12:00–13:00 | Marco Zenati | Dominic Jones | Round Table |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:30–15:30 | Riccardo Muradore | TBD (Surgical Technology) | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00–17:00 | Maria Bencivenga | Taha Chikhaoui | |
List of Speakers
Leonardo de Mattos
Marco Zenati
Riccardo Muradore
Maria Bencivenga
Elena de Momi
Jaydev Desai
Taha Chikhaoui
Hugo Pinto Marques
