Dr.-Ing. Christian Kunz

Research interests

– Minimally invasive medical robotics

– Artificial intelligence for medical applications

– Robot-assisted surgery

– Augmented Reality

Projects

Koala-Grasp: Cognitive guided laparoscopy

 

Since 2017, I have been conducting research in the field of medical automation and robotics at the Institute of Anthropomatics and Robotics, at the chairs of “Intelligent Process Automation and Robotics” and “Health Robotics and Automation” at the renowned Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
I completed my doctorate at the KIT in October 2021. Since April 2023, I have been serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the SPARC Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-University.

 

My research interests have always been intuitive human-machine interaction, especially via augmented reality, automated surgical planning, machine learning and most recently cognitive learning surgical robotics, as well as intelligent minimally invasive instruments.

 

My work received the prestigious NEO Innovation Award (2019) from the TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe for the “HoloMed” project and the Science Award from the Erwin and Gisela Sick Foundation for the best dissertation at the KIT KCIST Centre (2023).

I am also involved in the promotion of young scientists (Young Surgineers) of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC).