EndoTheranostics combines several advances into a single clinically motivated pathway. It introduces a soft, low-friction locomotion approach for colon traversal and couples it with compact 3D perception designed for reliable intra-procedural assessment. It also adds a dedicated concept for stabilising the local environment at the target site, enabling more controlled sensing and treatment actions in a moving, deformable organ.
In addition, the project is building a safety-oriented development framework that links data collection, automated analysis, teleoperation, and simulation to support systematic benchmarking and the progressive introduction of clinician-assistive autonomy. Together, these elements establish a structured route from component innovation to integrated validation, with the long-term aim of improving examination completeness and tolerance, strengthening decision-making through better sensing, and increasing the reliability of targeted endoscopic therapy.
The eversion robot findings in WP1 advance the state of the art not only in the context of colonoscopy but also across eversion robotics more broadly. The proposed improvements to the eversion robot body signifi cantly enhance navigational capability and apply to a wide range of environment-guided eversion robot applications, including other endoluminal procedures, pipe inspection, and search-and-rescue operations. This work has the potential to establish a new generation of highly maneuverable eversion robots.
The results of WP5 advance the state of the art of concentric tube robots by developing techniques that integrate a physics-based model and learned corrections implemented by mixture density networks for accurate kinematic modelling.
