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Biotricity Awarded NRC-IRAP Grant to Study HRV Application in Preventative Medicine

Biotricity, a healthcare technology company dedicated to delivering innovative, medically relevant biometric remote monitoring solutions, has been awarded a research grant from the National Research Council-Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) of Canada. The prestigious grant enables Biotricity to conduct research around the use of heart rate variability (HRV) in various applications for preventative medicine.

23 Feb 2016

Robotic Arm Exoskeleton Beneficial in Post-Stroke Motor Skill Rehabilitation

Motor skill training using a robotic arm exoskeleton may be beneficial to people suffering from post-stroke weakness affecting an entire side of their body, according to research presented this week at the Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting in Sacramento, Calif.

19 Feb 2016

Research Groups Develop Virtual Coaching Space for Physical Rehabilitation

A new system in a virtual training room is helping users practice and improve sports exercises and other motor activities: six research groups from the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University are working on the ICSPACE project to develop this virtual coaching space.

19 Feb 2016

Successful Completion of First Procedure with Magellan Robotic Catheter eKit in US

Hansen Medical®, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced the completion of the first clinical procedure in the United States with the Magellan™ Robotic Catheter eKit (MRC eKit). Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Ripal Gandhi, performed the procedure at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute (MCVI) in Miami, FL. Dr. Gandhi used the MRC eKit during a robotic transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) procedure.

18 Feb 2016

Transcriptic Robotic Cloud Laboratory Helps Researchers to Automate and Streamline Biology Research

Transcriptic, Inc., a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences, today announced a peer-reviewed study has been published in PLOS ONE that provides an example of how researchers are successfully using Transcriptic Workcells to automate and streamline their biology research.

17 Feb 2016

Researchers Demonstrate Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm Capable of Moving Fingers Individually

Believed to be a first, biomedical engineers and physicians at the John Hopkins Medicine have reported their successful effort to wiggle fingers separately and individually, using a mind-controlled artificial "arm."

16 Feb 2016

Surgeons and Administrators to Attend Seminar on Robotic Surgery at UAB

Surgeons and administrators from hospitals in 26 states and several foreign countries will attend the 2016 Academic Session on robotic-assisted surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The session, to be held Feb. 19-20, is co-sponsored by Intuitive Surgical, developers of the da Vinci surgical system, the most common surgical robots in use in the United States.

16 Feb 2016

Latest Developments in Limb Prosthetics, Assistive Robotics, and Brain Computer Interfaces Revealed at AAAS 2016

Slicing bread, pouring a cup of coffee, and sitting down at the kitchen table are a part of everyday life for most people, but for people with physical impairments such as limb amputations or neurological lesions, these tasks can present an insurmountable challenge without support. Pooling their efforts, researchers from the engineering and medical sciences are on a quest for smarter, more precise assistive devices ultimately piloted by the patients' minds.

16 Feb 2016

New Paper Discusses Success of Tele-ICU Services in War-Affected Syria

Life-saving medical treatment can be readily deployed using modern cost-free social media applications in regions devastated by war, according to clinicians who launched the Syria Tele-ICU program in December 2012.

15 Feb 2016

TIRS Completes First Robotic Surgery Using da Vinci Xi System and TruSystem 7000dV Table

On Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, surgeons at the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery at St. David's North Austin Medical Center successfully completed the first robotic surgery combining the da Vinci® Xi® Surgical System with Trumpf Medical's advanced operating table, the TruSystem® 7000dV.

15 Feb 2016