Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is our privilege and great pleasure to invite you to the first Medical Robotics Week (MRW2021) in Basel, the city of the oldest University in Switzerland. Basel has a long history related to medicine. However, this is the first time that we connect the field of robotics with the field of medicine in the Basel area. For this reason, we strongly collaborate with partners from ETH Zurich, partners from industry, as well as hospitals (University Hospital Basel, University Children Hospital of Basel, and the Balgrist).