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EURON Key Areas Education and Training The aim of the EURON Education and Training Key Area is to unite the efforts of the whole education robotics community to provide students, educators and robotics researchers with mechanisms for improving robotics education in Europe. This Key Area promotes and organises several activities, including: EURON Schools, dealing with emergent topics in robotics. These schools are aimed at PhD student level but are open to everyone. Three Schools have been approved so far for summer 2006. The database of teaching materials contains several sections, the contents of which can be used freely as an aid to preparing courses and lectures, or as a source of inspiration for new teaching activities. There are four sections so far: robotics simulators, robotics platforms, robotics videos, and lecture presentations. The Theseuron directory for robotics Ph.D. theses developed in EURON-member Research Centers and Universities provides readers with the most up-to-date research in various areas of robotics, and The European Robotics Courses database is the place to find information about robotics courses currently being offered in any of the EU members states. A course search can be conducted according to different criteria including country, date, or subject. We hope that we can move towards some sort of standardisation of the courses and also towards better course credit transfer possibilities through wider use of ECTS. Encouraging excellence in young researchers by giving an award for the best recent PhD in Europe. Please both CONTRIBUTE TO and USE these databases! Robotics for under 18s This is not a EURON priority, but we have collected together some ideas and links to places we hope are helpful to those teaching robotics to school children. We also have some information about funding opportunities for schools, if you know of more please tell us.		Robot of the Week Surgery worm An aid for heart surgeons Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) replaces the wide incision used for classic operations with a few small incisions, through which the tips of robot arms are inserted: one holding a camera and others holding surgical tools. These arms are controlled by the surgeons carrying out the operation. Our surgery worm is an articulated arm designed for heart surgery, more precisely Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG). The articulated snake-like forearm can carry various tools along twisting paths, minimising impact on the patient. This reduces patient trauma, postoperative pain and recovery time The fixture is a good example of a Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS), with force-actuation and shape-control being intrinsic properties. A prototype of the surgical instrument has been machined in Paris and will be tested in vivo. We are currently developing new task-oriented end-effectors, such as a self-operating sewing rig able to operate with a single thread. The surgery worm was developed by a collaboration between the PMAR Lab of EURON member 95, the University of Genova, Italy, and the LRP laboratory of the University of Paris 6, France.



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