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Sheffield Robotics Set to Advance UK’s Robotics Research

Sheffield is at the center of the UK’s robotic research, with the potential to become the leading city in the field worldwide.

27 Jul 2016

Robotic Surgery as Good as Open Surgery for Prostate Cancer, Study Finds

The first randomised controlled trial to directly compare robotic surgery with open surgery for patients with localised prostate cancer finds that robotic and open surgery achieve similar results in terms of key quality of life indicators at 3 months.

27 Jul 2016

HIFU Prostrate Services Places Sonablate HIFU Robotic System at Florida Hospital

HIFU Prostate Services, LLC, the most experienced provider of HIFU for prostate cancer and with the largest network of HIFU physicians, has placed a Sonablate HIFU system at Florida Hospital Celebration Health under the direction of Dr. Vipul Patel. Dr. Patel is widely considered the world’s expert in robotic-assisted prostatectomy (prostate removal), having performed over 9,500, and leads the efforts at the Global Robotics Institute in Celebration, FL.

26 Jul 2016

NYU Lutheran Offers Robot-Assisted Surgery with da Vinci Surgical System

True to its commitment to bring world-class care to patients in Brooklyn, the NYU Langone Health System is building a sophisticated, technologically advanced and clinically integrated health network in the borough.

26 Jul 2016

Microrobots Assist in Medical Operations and Drug Delivery

A team of researchers at EPFL and ETHZ have designed a new technique for constructing microrobots that can be used in the body to provide drugs and also perform a number of other medical operations.

25 Jul 2016

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Launches CLAM-2000 Sample Preparation System for LCMS Analysis

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments today announces the release of the Clinical Laboratory Automation Module (CLAM-2000), a fully integrated sample pretreatment module for LC-MS.

22 Jul 2016

EchoPixel's True 3D Viewer Now Available to Clinical Users

EchoPixel announced today that its breakthrough medical imaging solution is now available to clinical users in collaboration with the HP Zvr Interactive Virtual Reality Display and workstation.

22 Jul 2016

Dielectric Elastomers for Robots Could Reduce Actuation Voltage, Increase Energy Density

Soft robots do a lot of things well but they’re not exactly known for their speed. The artificial muscles that move soft robots, called actuators, tend to rely on hydraulics or pneumatics, which are slow to respond and difficult to store.

22 Jul 2016

LuxAI's Business Model to Develop, Construct Social Robots

The startup LuxAI was created following a research project at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under its Proof of Concept scheme. The business model of LuxAI is developing and constructing so-called social robots.

21 Jul 2016

Clinical Data on Medrobotics' Flex Robotic System Presented at American Head & Neck Society International Conference

Medrobotics Corp, a surgical products company with core competencies in medical robotics, announced that exemplary, multicenter clinical data on its Flex® Robotic System was presented Sunday afternoon at the American Head & Neck Society International Conference in Seattle.

19 Jul 2016