Title:  Intelligent Microsurgical Robotics

Abstract:  Microscopic surgical robots represent an integrated advancement in precision surgery and intelligent control. They assist surgeons in a variety of microsurgical procedures by enabling highly accurate, dexterous, and standardized operations, and constitute a significant branch of medical surgical robotics. Focusing on microscopic ophthalmic surgery, this lecture reviews the historical development and leading advances in the field, and describes how innovations in surgical microscopes and instruments have catalyzed progress. The next generation of microscopic ophthalmic surgical robots is characterized by greater operational autonomy and flexibility, higher control precision, more comprehensive assistive functions, and improved postoperative feedback. The talk details several key enabling technologies, including the development of intelligent surgical instruments, intraoperative real‑time multimodal navigation methods, robotic intelligent control strategies, and automated surgical assessment. The lecture concludes with an outlook on future opportunities and challenges for microscopic ophthalmic surgical robotics.

Biography: Gui-Bin Bian is a Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on intelligent surgical robotics. He has led projects including a National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation’s Major Scientific Instrument Development project, joint foundation projects, and an Innovation & Interdisciplinary Team project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has authored over 190 high‑quality academic papers, 99 of which are indexed by SCI, and received seven international paper awards. He holds 72 granted domestic and international invention patents and participated in drafting one national standard. His honors include the First Prize of the China Instrument and Control Society’s Technological Invention Award, the First Prize of the China Invention Association’s Invention & Innovation Award, the “Strengthening‑Nation Young Scientist” nomination from the Communist Youth League and China Youth Daily, and the Robot Science Leading Award. He serves on expert panels for the 14th Five‑Year National Key R&D Program (Special Projects on “Fundamental Research Infrastructure and Major Scientific Instruments and Equipment Development” and “Intelligent Robotics”), and is a member of the expert working group for the AI domain guideline of the “Strategic Science & Technology Innovation Cooperation” key program. He is President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association, a member of the Academic Committee of the PLA Key Laboratory for Combat Injury Specialized Treatment, and an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), and The Innovation. He has been recognized as National Distinguished Young Scholar, Outstanding Member of the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist, and Beijing Science & Technology Rising Star.