PALPABLE
Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Coordinator Running
A tactile-sensing probe with a soft, pneumatically actuated tip that lets surgeons feel and visualise tissue abnormalities during minimally invasive surgery.
What THL does. Coordinates the project and builds the operator interface that overlays the reconstructed tissue-stiffness map on the laparoscopic view.
- Programme
- Horizon Europe
- Call topic
- HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-03Advanced multi-sensing systems (Photonics Partnership) (RIA)
- Grant agreement
- 101092518
- Funded period
- Jan 2023 – Dec 2026
- THL role
- Coordinator
- Consortium
- 10 organisations in 7 countriesGermany, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Total budget
- €2.9 MEU contribution €2.9 M
- EU funding to THL
- €695 k
- Theme
- Health and wellbeing
Consortium
Partners
Results
Publications and patents
Publications by THL researchers
- 2026International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
Publications by consortium partners
- 2026Surgical Endoscopy
- 2026PALPABLE: enhanced bending stiffness and proprioception in soft actuators for laparoscopic palpationFrontiers in Robotics and AI
- 2026Surgical Endoscopy
- 2025Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
- 2025Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment, and Environmental Applications XXV
- 2025Sensors
- 2025Surgical Endoscopy
- 2025Biosensors
- 2025Sensors
- 2025Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
- 2024Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- 2024Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- 2024Optics Express
- 2023IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Enabling Shape Sensing in MIS Using a Two-Photon Polymerized WaveguideHamlyn Symposium on Medical roboticsConference paperPALPABLE