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Hansen Medical to Demonstrate Magellan Robotic System at 42nd Annual VEITHsymposium

Hansen Medical, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced it will exhibit its Magellan™ Robotic System at the 42nd Annual VEITHsymposium®, November 17 - 21 at the New York Hilton-Midtown in New York City. The Company will be conducting product demonstrations of the Magellan Robotic System and the related family of Magellan Robotic Catheters, including the Magellan 6Fr, 9Fr and 10Fr catheters. Hansen Medical will be located at exhibit booth #416.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 17 Nov 2015

KLAS Awards Top Ranking to ARxIUM’s RIVA Fully Automated IV Compounding System

For the third year in a row, RIVA, the fully automated IV compounding system developed by ARxIUM, has been recognized as category leader in “Pharmacy Automation: IV Robots” by independent healthcare research firm KLAS. The top ranking was announced in its “2015 Best in KLAS: Medical Equipment & Infrastructure” report.

17 Nov 2015

Xenex and Premier Sign Group Purchasing Agreement for Patented Germ-Zapping Robot Technology

Xenex Disinfection Services today announced it has signed a group purchasing agreement for its patented Germ-Zapping Robot™ technology with Premier, Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 3,600 U.S. hospitals and 120,000 other providers.

13 Nov 2015

NSF Awards $1 Million to Develop Dynamic Robotic Brace for Treating Scoliosis

Bucknell University junior Michelle Archambault '17 knows well the good and the bad a spine brace can do. Diagnosed with scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine, while in middle school, she wore a rigid plastic brace for 16 hours a day, every day, for five years. It corrected the problem and kept her from needing surgery, but it was not an experience she'd like to repeat.

12 Nov 2015

Paradise Valley Hospital Offers CT-Free Robotic Partial Knee Replacement Surgery

Paradise Valley Hospital now offers CT-free robotic partial knee replacement surgery for San Diegans. The robotic-assisted surgical system helps surgeons perform precise and accurate partial knee replacement utilizing the most advanced technologies available.

12 Nov 2015

Vanderbilt Develops Medical Capsule Robot, Offers as Open Source

Researchers around the globe who want to customize medical capsule robots won’t have to start from scratch – a team from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering did the preliminary work for them and is ready to share.

6 Nov 2015

Robotic Worm can Drill Through Bone to Steer Around Sensitive Tissue

Removing tumors from within the inner ear is a very delicate matter that typically requires surgeons to remove the entire mastoid bone. However, in the future, all doctors will need to do is cut a tunnel of 5 mm in diameter through the bone using a miniature robot named NiLiBoRo.

5 Nov 2015

Hansen Medical’s Magellan Robotic Microcatheter Driver used in Clinical Peripheral Vasculature Procedure

Hansen Medical, Inc., announced today the completion of the world's first clinical procedure using the Magellan™ Robotic Microcatheter Driver as part of the clinical study: Embolization Procedures in Peripheral Vasculature. Study Principal Investigator, Professor Marc Sapoval, MD, MSc and Dr. Gregory Amouyal, MD performed the procedure at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou (HEGP-APHP).

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 5 Nov 2015

Mechanical Assistant Reminiscent of a Robot Arm Assists Surgeons

In the future, surgical assistants could be relieved by surgeons, to devote their time instead to their own patients. This is expected to be made possible by a device which has been developed by researchers from the project group for automation in medicine and biotechnology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Mannheim, Germany – together with their colleagues from the surgical clinic of the University Hospital of Mannheim.

4 Nov 2015

Pertexa Debuts RITA Robotic Intelligent Telehealth Assistant at 2015 OPEN MINDS Technology & Informatics Institute

On the first day of the 2015 OPEN MINDS Technology & Informatics Institute, Pertexa Inc., a medical technology company based in Ridgecrest, California, made a splash with the debut of their new, versatile machine called RITA (Robotic Intelligent Telehealth Assistant).

3 Nov 2015