Robot-Assisted Training for Primary Care: How can robots help train doctors in medical examinations?

Awards Ceremony

Winners for the awards listed below will be announced during the LIVE Panel Discussion Sessions on 23 October 2020:

• Best Paper Award              –      Session 1 (10am, UK time)
• Best Presentation Award  –      Session 2 (4pm, UK time)

Both winners are awarded a certificate from the UK RAS Strategic Task Group on Soft Robotics.

Accepted Papers

Topics of interest

The topics covered and addressed in the workshop includes:

• Primary Care
• Medical Training
• Medical Robotics
• Haptics and Soft Robotics
• Human and Robot Interaction
• Arbitrary Perception and Action
• Virtual Modelling

Call for Papers (deadline extended)

We welcome researchers in the field to submit papers or extended abstracts to be presented as posters. Considering the current situation due to Covid-19, both a 2-minute recorded presentation and a poster are required if the manuscript is accepted. Submitted manuscripts should be up to 2 pages plus references, formatted according to the IEEE conference proceedings template. The submitted contributions will go through a single-blind review process and be selected based on the originality, technical contributions, clarity in presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics. All accepted papers will be published on the workshop website shortly after the IROS 2020 conference. In addition, authors of selected contributions may be invited to submit full-length manuscripts to be included after independent peer-review in a special issue.

To submit the papers: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ropat2020

2-page submission deadline: 01^st September 2020 20^th September 2020

Notification of Acceptance: 07^th September 2020 27^th September 2020

The best poster and the best presentation will each be awarded a certificate from UK RAS Strategic Task Group on Soft Robotics.

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