In the frame of European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2018 (Tampere, Finland, March 13-15, 2018) SMARTsurg partners (UWE-Bristol Robotic Laboratory and Politecnico di Milano) co-organized and participated to the Workshop on Networking for new trends in surgical robotics. Sanja Dogramadzi, Bristol Robotic Laboratory, UK, presented SMARTsurg.