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TELELAP ALF-X Robotic System Empowers Surgeons with New Technologies to Improve Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures

A JRC invention initially stemming from its research in the nuclear sector will soon be used by hospitals for minimally-invasive robotic surgery. TELELAP ALF-X is an advanced multi-port robotic system that will empower surgeons with new technologies such as eye-tracking and haptics, allowing them eye-control of the camera and touch sensation during surgery. Hospitals will be able to use the most advanced technology while running at low operational costs, as the system can use current surgical instruments.

5 Oct 2015

Tom Sugar's ASU Lab Helps People Overcome Physical Disability through Wearable Robotic Systems

Tom Sugar doesn’t consider himself a modern-day Iron Man, but he does marvel at how his specialty — wearable robotics or exoskeletons — has taken off and achieved something of blockbuster proportions. Sugar has worked in the field since 1999, when he first set up Arizona State Univesity’s Human Machine Integration Lab.

5 Oct 2015

Hansen Medical Signs Distribution Agreement with AB Medica Sagl for Magellan Robotic System in Switzerland

Hansen Medical, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with AB Medica Sagl for distribution of the Magellan™ Robotic System in Switzerland. AB Medica, s.p.a. is the company's exclusive distributor for Italy. As part of the agreement, Hansen Medical sold and shipped a Magellan system to AB Medica on September 30, 2015.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 5 Oct 2015

First Robot-Assisted PAE Procedure in the UK done with Magellan Robotic System

Hansen Medical, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced the completion of the first robot-assisted Prostatic Artery Embolization (PAE) procedure in the United Kingdom with the Magellan™ Robotic System.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 29 Sep 2015

Powered Prosthetics Automatically Tune Themselves

When amputees receive powered prosthetic legs, the power of the prosthetic limbs needs to be tuned by a prosthetics expert so that a patient can move normally - but the prosthetic often needs repeated re-tuning. Biomedical engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have now developed software that allows powered prosthetics to tune themselves automatically, making the devices more functionally useful and lowering the costs associated with powered prosthetic use.

29 Sep 2015

Paralyzed Man Walks Without Relying on Manually Controlled Robotic Limbs

Novel brain-computer interface technology created by University of California, Irvine researchers has allowed a paraplegic man to walk for a short distance.

28 Sep 2015

MEDTECH’s Rosa Robotic Surgery System to be Showcased at 2015 CNS Annual Meeting

MEDTECH, a company specialized in designing, developing and marketing innovative surgical assistance robots, is proud to announce that it will highlight its ROSA™ robotic surgery system at the 2015 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans (USA) from September 28 to 30, 2015.

28 Sep 2015

EDAP Participates in EAU Robotic Urology Section Congress Held in Bilbao, Spain

EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, today provided an update on the growing momentum being experienced by HIFU technology in the European market, in particular the rapidly increasing interest in the use of focal therapy in the treatment of prostate cancer.

26 Sep 2015

Mazor Robotics Renaissance Guidance System to be Featured in Live Surgery Presentation at CNS 2015

Mazor Robotics Renaissance® Guidance System will be featured in a Live Surgery presentation entitled, "Spine: Robotics-guided MIS TLIF" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The surgery will be performed live by Hunaldo J. Villalobos, MD, FACS, in Orlando, Florida, and broadcast into the exhibit area from 11:45 am – 12:15 pm on Tuesday, September 29.

From Medtronic 26 Sep 2015

Researchers Develop New Feedback System to Control Robots Using Brain-Machine Interfaces

Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) are a promising and expanding branch of robotics that has life-changing capabilities for those with reduced motor controls. By using electrodes on the skin (EEG) to record brain waves and then using these brain waves to operate an external robot (e.g. prosthetic arm) to perform actions in exactly the way the user requires, a BMI can be used to bridge a gap in the nervous system that may have been caused by injury or illness.

26 Sep 2015