Theme 2020: Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare and Robotics

The university management boards of Imperial and TUM jointly selected the field of Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare and Robotics as the topic for the first cohort in 2020. Prof. Nassir Navab of TUM and Dr. Aldo Faisal of Imperial, respectively, were named as the two academic leads for this field. Six projects were selected that are each led by a Principal Investigator (PI) from TUM and Imperial. The research teams, consisting of two doctoral candidates, one of each institution, and their PIs, started their projects in October 2020. Over a period of three to four years, they conduct cross-disciplinary research in these selected projects:

• RoboticCatheter - Non-fluoroscopy-based robotic catheter manipulation and tracking based on machine learning, bioelectrical localization and robotics
   
• MoCoQ - Motion-Corrected Quantitative Body MRI
   
• RUTS-SRG - Confidence-driven Robotic Ultrasound Tissue Scanning for Surgical Resection Guidance
   
• HumanRobotics - Human not monkey robotics: Neuro-inspired object manipulation with dextrous hands
   
• SMILE - Sensory Motor Interface for Lower extremity Exoskeletons
   
• ReLOI - Representation learning in oncologic imaging