Maier-Hein, Lena
Vedula, Swaroop S.
Speidel, Stefanie
Navab, Nassir
Kikinis, Ron
Park, Adrian
Eisenmann, Matthias
Feussner, Hubertus
Forestier, Germain
Giannarou, Stamatia
Hashizume, Makoto
Katic, Darko
Kenngott, Hannes
Kranzfelder, Michael
Malpani, Anand
März, Keno
Neumuth, Thomas
Padoy, Nicolas
Pugh, Carla
Schoch, Nicolai
Stoyanov, Danail
Taylor, Russell
Wagner, Martin
Hager, Gregory D.
Jannin, Pierre
Article History
First Online: 12 September 2017
Competing interests
: R.T. is a paid consultant to Galen Robotics, Inc. (owned by Johns Hopkins University; JHU) and owns equity in the company, and is also a co-inventor of technology licensed to Galen Robotics, Elekta, and Intuitive Surgical, for which R.T. has or may receive a portion of licensing fees. Although this Comment does not explicitly reference Galen Robotics or the licensed technology, JHU policy requires that these relationships be disclosed. These arrangements have been reviewed and approved by JHU in accordance with its conflict of interest policy. A.P. is on the scientific advisory board of Stryker Endoscopy (Stryker Corporation; Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA). D.S. is a paid part-time member of Touch Surgery, Kinosis Ltd. Although this Comment does not explicitly reference Touch Surgery technology, University College London (UCL) policy requires that these relationships be disclosed. These arrangements have been reviewed and approved by UCL in accordance with its conflict of interest policy.