On 8th March 8 2024, Pietro Piazzolla, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, presented a seminar in the Milan Building in the context on the series of lectures “Design-Future”

The growing adoption of Augmented Realities solutions for different Surgical Disciplines is well established in the literature, with several reports of its use in various application areas, from improving 3D reconstruction models of the anatomic structures in-vivo surgeries to pre-operatory preparation, to diagnostics and training. During this focused seminar, the author presented as case studies three solutions he has developed for Augmented Reality applications to support minimally invasive medicine: one for supporting Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (AR-RAPN), one for supporting Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomies (RARP) and a third one, a current work-in-progress, to support Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS).