A seven year old girl, Anna Good, gained strength to move around and pedal her tricycle after undergoing robotic rehabilitation treatment at the Robotic Rehabilitation Center at Riley Hospital for children in Indianapolis.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish a multi-institution Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering located at the University of Washington. The center is to be launched this month and will be based in the Russel Hall on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.
The Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) and Livingston Advisory Committee for Disabilities (LACD) announced that children with special needs would be offered the ‘Shining Star’ Robotics League. One of the award winning FISRT LEGO League (FLL) team from LRC, comprising four eighth-grade girls is available for mentoring the teams for two to four hours every week.
Kagawa University professor, Hideyuki Sawada, has created a robotic mouth that can talk and also sing. The mouth was presented at Robotech 2011, where it was made to recite “Kagome, Kagome”, a Japanese children’s song.
Kessler Foundation became the first Rehabilitation Center to introduce the Robotic Gait Training System using the LokomatPro V6 in the U.S. It is a sophisticated robotic training system, which is designed to improve mobility in people suffering from spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury or multiple sclerosis disease and whose movements have been restrained.
Manipal Health has launched the Manipal Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery (MVIRS) at its hospital in Bangalore. The robotic surgical system, which cost Rs10 crores is the first of its kind in Karnataka.
Health Robotics has announced that medical dispensing solutions like i.v.STATION, i.v.SOFT, i.v.STATION ONCO would be available for rent. To carry out its new rental plan it has chosen Americorp Financial to help out; Americorp provides assistance in healthcare equipment financing solutions.
The Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, India has acquired the highly advanced da Vinci Robotic Si Surgical System; this is the first hospital in Asia to have acquired the system.
The country’s first Endoscopic Thyroidectomy was performed at the St. Luke’s Medical Center using the Da Vinci Surgical System Si. The ‘Total Axillary Approach’ was followed for performing the surgery, which is called the Single Incision Robotics-Assisted Thyroid Surgery.
The Asian Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery and the Asian Heart Institute have acquired the most advanced surgical robot in Asia at the cost of $2.5 million. The first robot-assisted surgery will be conducted within the month. Robotic arm assisted surgeries are minimally invasive and said to have better results than conventional surgeries.
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