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A robotic revolution for eye surgery: Maarten Beelen at TEDxBinnenhof

4,471 views · Published 26 June 2012 · 7:05 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Maarten Beelen (Weert) is engineer and co-founder of Medical Robotic Technologies, a company that develops robotic technology for medical applications starting form research results at the Control Systems Technology group (CST) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The focus is on the cure sector, with application examples vitreoretinal surgery and minimally invasive surgery in the abdomen and thorax. Maarten studied Mechanical Engineering at the TU/e, MSc thesis: "Evaluation of haptics for a telesurgical robot".

He recently won the Pitch Award at the national Health Valley Event 2012 and was nominated for "Best Graduation Award of the TU/e".  

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