IEEE ICMA 2021 Conference
Plenary Talk 3

Post-Da Vinci Surgical Robots: Possibility and Expectations

Max Q.-H. Meng, PhD, FIEEE, FCAE
 
Professor and Chairman
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
Shenzhen, China
E-mail: max.meng@sustech.edu.cn
 

Abstract:
Research on surgical robotics is attracting more and more public attention and research efforts during the past decades. Recent revolutionary development and drastic progress in robotic technology in terms of both hardware capability and software power have made it possible for researchers to redefine what surgical robotics is capable of achieving to facilitate complicated medical procedures with much less pain and surgical procedures without even external scars. In this talk, we will start with an introduction to how research on minimally invasive surgical robotics started and what the milestone achievements are, and then move onto our own research efforts on post-Da Vinci surgical robots with several case study examples. Personal thoughts and outlook on future research efforts and potentials in surgical robotics will be outlined to conclude the talk.

Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng is currently a Chair Professor and the Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, on leave from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 1992. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001 as a Professor and later the Chairman of Department of Electronic Engineering. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada, where he served as the Director of the ART (Advanced Robotics and Teleoperation) Lab and held the positions of Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1998), and Professor (2000), respectively. He is an Honorary Chair Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University, and also the Honorary Dean of the School of Control Science and Engineering at Shandong University, in China. His research interests include robotics, perception and intelligence. He has published more than 750 journal and conference papers and book chapters and led more than 60 funded research projects to completion as Principal Investigator. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief and editorial board of a number of international journals and as the General Chair or Program Chair of many international conferences, including the General Chair of IROS 2005 and General Chair of ICRA 2021 to be held in Xi’an in June 2021. He served as an Associate VP for Conferences of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2004-2007), Co-Chair of the Fellow Evaluation Committee and an elected member of the AdCom of IEEE RAS. He is a recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and an Academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.