Title :
Plenary lectures: Problems in neurosurgery — A rich environment for engineer
Author :
Simard, J.M. ; Thakor, Nitish V. ; Fukuda, Toshio ; Hogan, Neville ; Carmena, Jose M. ; Arkin, R.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
These plenary lectures discuss the following: problems in neurosurgery - a rich environment for engineer; building a brain machine interface: the neuroprosthetics grand challenge; micro and nano robotics system for single cell analysis; contact robotics: physical interaction in assistive and therapeutic technologies; neural adaptations to a brain machine interface; and heterogeneous networked robotic teams: bioinspired approaches.
Keywords :
brain-computer interfaces; cellular biophysics; medical robotics; microrobots; multi-robot systems; neurophysiology; prosthetics; surgery; assistive technologies; bioinspired approach; brain machine interface; contact robotics; heterogeneous networked robotic teams; microrobotics system; nanorobotics system; neural adaptations; neuroprosthetics; neurosurgery; single cell analysis; therapeutic technologies;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1199-2
DOI :
10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290953
