News and Events

How Robotics and Light transform Surgery

Within spitting distance of the Inselspital, laboratory and operating room combine to help surgery overcome boundaries. New technologies are meant to expand human capabilities to make interventions more precise and careful. Read the full uniAKTUELL article (available only in German).

Media NRG – Neuro Robotics Group Robotics Surgical Technologies

18. August 2026

UniBE Venture Fellowship 2027: Call for Proposals

The UniBE Venture Fellowships 2027 are open for applications. Projects can be submitted until 10 December 2026. The program supports early-career researchers who wish to turn their scientific findings into innovative products and services during a year with up to CHF 100,000.

Grants & Awards

10. December 2026

Pedro Pereira Amado receives GCB Best Thesis Award 2025

At the Symposium of the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences on 25 June 2026, Pedro Pereira Amado of ARTORG’s Urogenital Engineering Group was one of three recipients of the graduate school’s Best Thesis Awards.

Grants & Awards UGE – Urogenital Engineering Biomechanics

25. June 2026

ARTORG Start-Up SurgExplore wins 2nd Place at MICCAI Society Startup Village Pitch Competition

SurgExplore, a digital health start-up of ARTORG’s Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (AIMI) Laboratory, placed 2nd in the MICCAI Society Startup Village Pitch Competition. The first three winners of this competition are eligible to take part as exhibitors in the MICCAI 2026 conference in Strasbourg this Autumn.

Grants & Awards AIMI – AI in Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence

28. July 2026

ARTORG Center and Spin-Off vitronco Secure EIC Funding

The ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research at the University of Bern has secured Stage 1 funding from the European Innovation Council's Advanced Innovation Challenges program for the VANTAGE project.

Grants & Awards OOC – Organs-on-Chip Technologies In-Vitro & Organs-on-Chip

13. August 2026

ARTORG Start-Up PeriVision Demonstrates Clinical-Grade Performance

A new study conducted at University Hospital Bern (Inselspital) shows that VisionOne, PeriVision's VR-based eye-testing platform, delivers clinical performance comparable to the Octopus 900, a stationary perimeter considered the gold standard, across the full spectrum of glaucoma severity.

Research AIMI – AI in Medical Imaging Virtual & Augmented Reality

10. August 2026

ARTORG Spin-Off LEM Surgical Demonstrates Capabilities of Surgical Humanoid Robot

LEM Surgical, a spin-off developed out of ARTORG’s former Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) research group, published its first scientific article “Impact of a novel spine stabilization technique on intervertebral movement in cervical spine surgery using a humanoid surgical robotic system,” demonstrating the groundbreaking capabilities of its surgical humanoid robot.

Research IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Robotics Surgical Technologies

14. August 2026

ARTORG’s AI in Health and Nutrition Group Contributes AI Expertise to Horizon Europe Project AIRIS

AIRIS (Mechanism-Informed Multimodal Generative AI for Causal and Dynamical Modelling in Biomedical Research) brings together 21 partners from Europe, Canada, and the US to develop generative AI models that combine biomedical and clinical data, existing knowledge, and mechanistic models. ARTORG researchers will contribute expertise in causal AI, mechanism discovery, and multimodal modelling to advance AI-supported biomedical discovery and personalized medicine.

Grants & Awards AIHN – AI in Health and Nutrition Artificial Intelligence

19. August 2026

One Year of Impact: DDM Anniversary Celebration

One year ago, the Department of Digital Medicine (DDM) was launched to bring together researchers, clinical experts and society to help shape the digital future of medicine. On 19 November 2026, DDM invites you to mark its first anniversary.

Events

19. November 2026

IFToMM D-A-CH Conference February 11-12, 2027

The 13th International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) D-A-CH Conference takes place on February 11 and 12, 2027, at the University of Bern, organized by Prof. Dr. Manuela Eugster and Julia Spyra at the ARTORG Center. The conference offers a forum for the exchange of young scientists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the intersection of mechanical engineering, motion technology and mechanism theory. Presentation abstracts are welcome (submission until Dec 12, 2026). Registration is open until January 22, 2027.

Events NRG – Neuro Robotics Group Robotics

11. February 2027

Funding for Swiss Space Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

At this event, the Innovation Office, the Swiss Space Office, the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Center (ESDI), euresearch and ESA BIC CH will provide information on various funding and support opportunities for space research and technology, as well as for projects that could have an impact on space technology or aim to apply space-related innovations on Earth. The networking session that follows offers an opportunity to exchange ideas with other experts and partners.