KUKA is a leading supplier of robotic components for medical devices. It is the only global robotics company with an entire business unit dedicated to medical robotics. With more than two decades of experience in medical robotics, our team offers services in development, sales, quality assurance and support, combining expertise in robotics and medical technology. KUKA robots are being used more frequently in healthcare by our medical technology partners in their medical devices because of their versatility. The applications vary from diagnostics to therapy. KUKA’s broad product portfolio allows medical device companies to choose from a variety of robots, from collaborative, specially-certified robots for integration into medical products to robots with heavy payloads for carrying heavy medical equipment.

Thursday 27th June

LBR Med Users Group Meeting
11:00 – 12:30

• Overview of the SW architecture, Dr Enrico Piovanelli & Dr Markus Finke
• Improvements and new features available with the latest version
  • Increased stiffness
  • Improved handguiding
  • Libraries for offline planning of collision free paths
  • Absolute accuracy

LBR Med Hands On Demo
15:30 – 17:00

• Hands-on demo, Dr Enrico Piovanelli & Dr Markus Finke
  • presenting some of the features that are not already shown by the demonstrator
  • answering additional questions directly on the system

	Dr Enrico Piovanelli 2016 Master’s degree in biomedical engineering, University of Padova (Italy) 2017 – 2020 PhD in Precision Engineering, University of Tokyo (Japan) 2020 – 2021 Postdoc biomedical signal processing, University of Tokyo (Japan) 2022 – now KUKA, Software developer medical robotics
	Dr. Markus Finke 2006 Degree in Computer Science, TU Ilmenau 2006-2012 PhD about Automated Surgical Microscope as Assistant System, Universität zu Lübeck 2012-now KUKA, currently Software Architect Medical Robotics