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Snake Robots to Help Surgeons Perform Minimally Invasive Surgery

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Mar 3 2011

During the 11th installment of the Project Olympus, held on February 22, 2011 at Carnegie Mellon University, applications implementing robotics, next generation commerce and e-learning were showcased.

Project Olympus also declared a fundraising campaign to raise significant dollars for continuing the project.

Howie Choset, associate professor of robotics at CMU’s Robotics Institute and one of the founders of Cardiorobotics, has confirmed that the company has successfully completed three rounds of testing its highly articulated snake robot. The robotic device was developed with an aim to enable surgeons to conduct minimally invasive surgeries.

The funding requirements for Cardiorobotics last year was around $5 million and the company expects to enter the market in 2012. Choset also added that his research aims at eliminating the boundary between the needs of a surgeon and that of a specialist.

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http://www.cmu.edu/

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