Pierre Berthet-Rayne

Pierre Berthet-Rayne serves as Chief Technical Officer at Caranx Medical and holds a Chair at the 3IA Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of the Côte d'Azur. His research pioneers AI-driven autonomous surgical robots to transition from teleoperated systems to clinician-supervised autonomous platforms.

Education:

• Master’s in Electronics and Control, Polytech’Montpellier (France), 2009
• MRes in Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention (with distinction), Imperial College London (UK), 2015
• PhD in Robotics, Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery (development of i²Snake endoscopic robot)

His core research spans surgical robotics, tendon-driven mechanisms, snake-like robots, and human-robot collaboration, with emphasis on AI for context-aware surgical planning and execution. Current work integrates image processing, sensor data fusion, and control systems to enable autonomous procedure execution under clinician oversight.

Professional trajectory includes two years as an embedded software engineer, postdoctoral research at King’s College London’s Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab, and visiting scholar roles at UNC Chapel Hill’s Computational Robotics Research Group and University of Arizona’s Model Based Design Lab.

He actively collaborates with the Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab (King’s College), Computational Robotics Research Group (UNC), and Model Based Design Lab (Arizona), driving innovation in surgical robotics through Caranx Medical’s technical leadership.