First International Congress of Polish Society for Robotic Surgery (PTChR) was held in Wroclaw on 1st  – 3rd March. Lead animator, creator and host of this great meeting of a surgical robot users from around the world was prof. Wojciech Witkiewicz. Thanks to His activities a first  da Vinci surgical robot appeared in Poland and the field for training the usage of robots for various applications in surgery was created. Established a year ago Polish Society for Robotic Surgery set itself the ambitious goal of education and promotion of modern surgery. I recommend the website www.chirurgiarobotowa.pl and medtube.pl , where you can find information regarding the Congress and the technology advances, robots used in surgery.

International Society for Medical Robots (ISMR) based on the personal invitation of prof. Witkiewicz's was the Organizer of  Robot Developers session during the Congress. This interesting session in participants view presented achievements of leading Centers of medical and social robots in Poland including Robin Heart system, what proofed strong position of domestic projects in the world.

Demonstration of teleoperation using, constructed in the Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development, Robin Heart robot has opened the annual conference on medical robots (10 December, 2010).
Remotely performed treatment was performed on the basis of electrocoagulation of pig hearts. Heart and Robin Heart Vision robot, with mounted an appropriate tool on the arm (thermal knife), were placed at the Center for Experimental Medicine in Katowice SUM. The control console Robin Heart Shell was at the headquarters of the Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development in Zabrze. Joanna Śliwa has sat behind the control console. She operated on the basis of endoscopic image from the track. The conference participants could observe the treatment of several camera shots in Zabrze and Katowice and directly from the robot control console.