We are delighted to announce that Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Director and Founder of Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London will be speaking at our upcoming Robot Ethics event on 23rd February.

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang (FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FAIMBE, FIAMBE, FMICCAI, FCGI) is director and co-founder of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, and Chairman of the UK-RAS Network. The mission of the UK-RAS Network is to provide academic leadership in RAS, expand collaboration with industry and integrate and coordinate activities of the EPSRC funded RAS capital facilities, Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) and partner universities across the UK. Professor Yang’s main research interests are in medical imaging, sensing and robotics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, fellow of IEEE, IET, AIMBE and a recipient of the Royal Society Research Merit Award and listed in The Times Eureka ‘Top 100’ in British Science. Professor Yang is the founding editor of Science Robotics – a journal of the Science family dedicated to the latest advances in robotics and how it enables or underpins new scientific discoveries.


Professor Yang's talk will outline how medical robotics have evolved from a niche research field to a major area of innovation and development in recent years, as well as legal and ethical considerations and potential barriers when autonomy is being pursued. With improved safety, efficacy and reduced costs, robotic platforms will soon approach a tipping point, moving beyond early adopters to become part of the mainstream in healthcare. These platforms will also drive the future of precision medicine, with a greater focus on precision intervention, targeted therapy and maintaining life-long health and well being of patients.  We will also project forward, on how this relatively young yet rapidly expanding field may reshape our future society, covering issues related to technical, commercial, regulatory, and economic challenges.


Make sure you register for our Robot Ethics event to hear Professor Yang's talk in full. We hope to see you there!