News & Awards

Two Papers to be Presented at IROS 2024

Two papers have been accepted and will be presented IEEE/RSJ International Conference on the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 14-18, 2024. Tracking Tumors under Deformation from Partial Point Clouds using Occupancy Networks – Pit Henrich†, Jiawei Liu†, Jiawei Ge, Samuel Schmidgall, Lauren Shepard, Ahmed Ezzat Ghazi, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich,…
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Congrats Lidia’s research featured on the Hopkins Engineering News

When Minutes Matter: Robot Tackles Trauma’s Silent Killer 

A Fluorescent Suture Could Brighten Up Surgical Outcomes | Giving to Johns Hopkins

In the IMERSE Lab at the Whiting School of Engineering, Justin Opfermann, a mechanical engineering PhD student, and his team are developing Glow and Sew, an innovative surgical tool designed to enhance the precision of anastomosis surgeries. The fluorescent suture they’ve created, coated in a powder that glows under near-infrared light, provides surgeons with improved…
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IEEE Pulse Magazine: Robots to Improve Surgery for All

Dr. Krieger is featured in a recent IEEE Pulse Magazine article on robotic surgery. https://www.embs.org/pulse/articles/robots-to-improve-surgery-for-all/

Congratulations on the Student Initiatives Fund

Congratulations to Justin and Jiawei for being awarded a Student Initiatives Fund (SIF) with the project “Fluorescent Suture with AI-Based Surgical Planner for Image Guided Surgery.”

News on NIBIB: Robot Performs Soft Tissue Surgery with Minimal Human Help

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has featured our recent study published in Science Robotics on the NIBIB webpage.

Baltimore Sun: Johns Hopkins engineers build robot to perform surgery without a doctor

Johns Hopkins engineers build robot to perform surgery without a doctor

IMERSE on BrainX Community Live

IMERSE team of Hamed, Justin, and Axel will discuss their latest study on Autonomous Robotic Laparoscopic Surgery, published in Science Robotics, with the BrainX community on Wednesday, February 23rd at 6:00 pm (EST). Please Join!