Symposium on surgical robotics — Invited talks: Robotic percutaneous beating-heart intracardiac surgery

These invited talks discuss the following: Robotic Percutaneous Beating-Heart Intracardiac Surgery; Beating Hearts And Trembling Hands: Active And Passive Compensation Of Physiological Motion For Surgery; Optimal Planning For Robotics-Assisted Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery; Why 3D Ultrasound isn´t the Default Image Guidance Modality-and Why it Should Be; Towards Real-time Needle Path Control in Live MRI; Robotics in general surgery: our first year experience; New Generation Robots for Endoluminal and Single Port Surgery; Intelligent Continuum Surgical Slaves; Proactive activities for a healthier society with intelligent medical robot based on physical model of human; Quantitative Skill Assessment within an Augmented Reality Biopsy Simulator; Predicting Target Motion for Planning of Medical Interventions; Needle insertion guidance: from adaptive motion planning to model-based control; and Enabling Technologies for Robot-Assisted Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.