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Middle Schoolers to View InTouch Health RP-7i Robot at Brainworks Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A robotic assistant will be a special guest at the March 11 Brainworks program for 130 seventh- and eighth-graders. Dependable, focused and able to perform tasks at any time, 24 hours a day, “Robot-Doc” has become a key member of the Neuroscience Critical Care Unit.

8 Mar 2013

Researchers Develop Mind-Controlled Robotic Exoskeleton for Disabled People

Every year thousands of people in Europe are paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a wheelchair. Although no medical cure currently exists, in the future they could be able to walk again thanks to a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton being developed by EU-funded researchers.

8 Mar 2013

Xenex Robot Uses Pulse Xenon to Deliver UV Light to Fight Hospital Infections

As major news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and CBS News have recently reported, U.S. hospitals are engaged in a ferocious battle against the deadly pathogens and multi drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) which cause healthcare associated infections (HAIs).

7 Mar 2013

Amerinet Choice Selects Health Robotics for Sterile Compounding Automation Solutions

Amerinet Choice®, the preferred portfolio subsidiary of Amerinet, announced a new five-year exclusive agreement with Health Robotics for its world-leading Sterile Compounding Automation solutions i.v.STATION, i.v.STATION ONCO, and i.v.SOFT Workflow Management solutions.

6 Mar 2013

Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System-Assisted Hip Replacement Surgery Webcast by BroadcastMed

ORLive.com, BroadcastMed’s premier surgical broadcasting website, is proud to present a webcast on a patient-specific total hip replacement brought to you by Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Watch orthopedic surgeon David Padden, MD, perform a MAKOplasty® Total Hip Replacement.

28 Feb 2013

Revolutionary Elderly Care Robot Developed by Salford PhD Student

A University of Salford researcher has come up with a novel way of dealing with stretched resources caused by us all living longer – an interactive care robot for elderly people.

27 Feb 2013

Mazor Robotics Offers Renaissance Surgical Guidance System for Spine and Brain Surgery

While only 10 to 15 percent of all spine surgeries are performed using minimally-invasive surgical (MIS) techniques, 25 percent of all Renaissance™ cases (1,019 and rising) have been executed percutaneously. Mazor Robotics, recently named one of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, offers advantages to patients and surgeons alike with Renaissance™, a surgical guidance system for spine and brain surgery. Mazor Robotics technology is available at over 40 spine centers worldwide and has been used in thousands of spine procedures to date.

From Medtronic 21 Feb 2013

Germ-Killing Ultraviolet Robot Deployed at Vancouver General Hospital

Her nickname is "Trudi," and she's a 5-foot-5 germ-killing ultraviolet robot battling one of the worst seasons for flu and related illnesses in recent memory.

21 Feb 2013

Study Finds Increased Use of Robotic-Assisted Hysterectomy for Benign Gynecologic Disorders

Between 2007 and 2010, the use of robotically-assisted hysterectomy for benign gynecologic disorders increased substantially, although, when compared with laparoscopic hysterectomy, the robotic procedure appears to offer little short-term benefit and is accompanied by significantly greater costs, according to a study appearing in the February 20 issue of JAMA.

20 Feb 2013

Novel Robotic Rehabilitation Helps Paralyzed Rats Move Voluntarily

In the lab, rats with severe spinal cord injury are learning to walk—and run—again. Last June in the journal Science, Grégoire Courtine, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), reported that rats in his lab are not only voluntarily initiating a walking gait, but they were sprinting, climbing up stairs, and avoiding obstacles after a couple of weeks of neurorehabilitation with a combination of a robotic harness and electricalchemical stimulation.

18 Feb 2013