The objectives of this advanced robotic neurosurgery project are:

• Objective 1: Real-time co-operative compensation of unpredictable surgical target motion.
• Objective 2: Human-robot dependable co-operation and workspace sharing.
• Objective 3: Master slave semi-active architecture providing dynamic virtual constraints into a modelled volatile environment.
• Objective 4: Cognitive competences for high level co-operation among robots and human operators.
• Objective 5: Augmented sensing and machine intelligence for estimating the target location and for driving robot activity through cognitive estimate of environment and target modifications.