This talk will give an overview of the Bioengineering Initiative in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. The mission of the Bioengineering Initiative is to serve as an engineering research for the hospital and work with clinical partners to develop technology for minimally invasive interventions. The technology developments include medical devices, medical robotics, image registration and fusion, and image-guided navigation for pediatric interventions. The clinical applications include laparoscopic abdominal surgery, knee arthroscopy, craniosynostosis, ureteroscopy, and cochlear implant surgery. The institute includes scientists, radiologists, and surgeons that are dedicated to improving the precision and decreasing the invasiveness of pediatric procedures.

I will also present our work over the last several years with our Interventional Radiology colleagues in developing body-mounted robots for MRI-guided interventions:

• Shoulder robot for arthrography

• Back-mounted robot for pain injections

• Table-mounted robot for long bone biopsy in the leg

• Brain-mounted robot for intracerebral hemorrhage