2. TWO SALIENT INCREMENTAL RESULTS

• Underwater Robotics

  Current developments and important recent results have led to operational, commercial systems which are reported on Salient examples of real-world operational robotics devices in

  http://www.laas.fr/iarp-france

  Medical Robotics

  Medical Robotics is one of the major fields considered by IARP and, certainly, one of the fastest growing research efforts in France, as well.

  This aspect has been recently stressed at the occasion of SITEF 2002 (October, Toulouse, France) the International Fair of Innovation and Future Technologies, where ENDOXIROB, a robot arm equipped with micro-tools for the laparoscopic surgery composed by 3 arms equipped by miniaturized surgical instruments, has been awarded the SITEF Golden Medal and the Michel Benech Prize for Innovation (ADERMIP).

  The project ENDOXIROB is fully described in last year report:

  http://www.laas.fr/iarp-france