Prof Kaspar Althoefer gave a keynote presentation on Soft Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery and other Human-robot Interaction Applications at the Soft Robotics Days (JRS2019-Journées Robotique Souple), in Lille, France - https://jrs2019.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3, organised by INRIA, the French national research institute for the digital sciences.

The event took place on 26 and 27 November 2019. On day one, international roboticists reported on their research advancements in the field of soft robotics. On day two, the emphasis was on learning about the soft robot modelling tool SOFA - https://www.sofa-framework.org/applications/gallery/model-based-control-of-soft-robots/.