Surgical robotics are amongst the most complex devices entering healthcare - but how should we evaluate them? Published in Nature Medicine the IDEAL Robotics Colloquium outlines the latest guidance to aid researchers evaluating surgical robots: nature.com/articles/s41591-0… (1/9)

Last but certainly not least, we’d like to thank our friends at Globus Medical @GlobusMedical, who are driving significant technological advancements across a complete suite of products ranging from spinal, trauma and orthopedics therapies, to robotics, navigation and imaging.

We'd like to thank our fabulous sponsors for helping this year's #IDEALConference happen. @TheMPSfdn @BBraunUK @the_mdu @CMRSurgical

Sandpit session off to a good start #IDEALConference

Mr Austin Koh, our conference co-lead, delivering a lecture on IDEAL Surgical Training

Some more excellent rapid-fire presentations and free papers!

Mr. Josh Burke speaking to us about the current landscape of surgical training

Thank you to @DrMarkSlack, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at @cmrsurgical, which is kindly sponsoring this year's #IDEALConference

Thank you to Professor @BlazebyJ for speaking to our audience about Augmenting IDEAL

Dr Puneet Plaha @PlahaPuneet presenting our next talk on FUTURE-GB

Dr @ArtsyTwits opens day 2 by chairing 'IDEAL evaluation in the real world'. Many thanks to our first speaker, Professor @pedroramirezMD 🙌

Day 1 ended with an inspirational talk by our keynote speaker Professor @BruceBiccard on Impactful research in low-resource settings: strategies, the truth, and moral dilemmas.

Some more excellent free papers, this time in global surgery 💪

Our second session was led by the esteemed Dr @janetmartinwho, featuring an insightful talk by Mr @willboltontiger

Back with more oral presentations!

Thank you to 2 more of our wonderful sponsors @BBraunUK @the_mdu #IDEALConference

A well-deserved lunch, here at the Royal Society of Medicine