LCSR Seminar: Pierre Dupont “Designing Medical Robots inside a Hospital”

When:
November 28, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00
2018-11-28T13:00:00-05:00
Where:
Hackerman B17
Contact:
Ashley Moriarty
410-516-6841

Abstract

My lab creates medical robots not only for minimally invasive surgery, but also for tissue regeneration.  This talk will describe two of our technologies. The first consists of a class of robot implants designed to apply traction forces over a period of weeks inside the body so as to induce the regeneration of soft tissues. Applications include lengthening the esophagus and bowel for the treatment of congenital defects and disease. The second technology is a type of continuum robot that is based on concentrically combining pre-curved elastic tubes. We are using this technology to create multi-armed systems for intracranial endoscopic surgery. We are also developing image-guided catheters that can navigate autonomously inside the blood-filled beating heart.

 

Bio

Pierre E. Dupont is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering and holder of the Edward P. Marram Chair at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is also a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His research group develops robotic instrumentation and imaging technology for medical applications. He received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. After graduation, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. He subsequently moved to Boston University, Boston, MA, USA where he was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and a member of the Advisory Board for Science Robotics.

 

Recorded Fall 2018 Seminars

 

 

Laboratory for Computational Sensing + Robotics