Hi all,
Please join us on Thursday 25 September, 2025 at 11 am EST (3 PM GMT) for:
ROS-powered robots *can* be safe: practical advice on how to do it for medical robots
OK, so the robot works… But how to make it safe? In this talk, we’ll look at how to layer “safety” into robots built on ROS, without derailing your roadmap. We’ll use medical robotics hazards as a worked example to explore practical methods for fault-tolerant control and sensor integration needed to turn your research prototype into something suitable for clinics/regulators, while balancing innovation speed with safety. Plus real lessons from someone who’s actually architected and implemented core safety components herself, in practice! Especially useful for others who are also looking to build medical robots “the startup way”. That is, pragmatic safety without cutting corners, while in a small team, and leveraging the open source robotics community the whole way.
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About the speaker:
Deanna Hood is leading robotics software development at Vexev, where the team is building one of the first medical robots openly based on ROS 2: an ultrasound imaging system that uses robotic automation to scan vasculature. As you saw from her ROSCon keynote, Deanna’s work as a core developer on ROS 2 has since evolved into hands-on experience turning various research prototypes into medical devices designed under FDA / IEC 63404 standards. She brings a pragmatic, startup-driven perspective to safety, focused on how to ship life-saving innovation quickly leveraging open source, while still meeting the demands of medical standards.
