The International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) will be held at the Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 1-3, 2018. ISMR 2018 will be a single-track symposium with talks covering several areas of medical robotics. The goal of ISMR is bringing together people from engineering, medicine, and industry who are working in various areas within the field of medical robotics to create a common forum for exchanging ideas and fostering future developments in the field.