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Israeli Medical Centers Adopt Cutting Edge Treatment Options for Cancer

Professor Avraham Katan, Chief of the Oncology Department at the Rambam Medical Center, has stated that medical centers in Israel are adopting innovative treatment options for cancer.

19 Feb 2011

Canada's First Robotic Laryngectomy Performed

In a ground-breaking new achievement, doctors have been able to perform a throat surgery in Canada without cutting the patient.

16 Feb 2011

Health Robotics to Resume Sales and Service Operations in Italy

Health Robotics has declared that it has decided to re-enter the Italian market by resuming sales and service operations in the country.

16 Feb 2011

Health First Foundation to Raise Funds for da Vinci Robot

The Health First Foundation has declared that the earnings from their 29th annual benefit ball event will sponsor a ‘dual console’ for the da Vinci surgical system at the Holmes Regional Medical Center.

16 Feb 2011

HACH LANGE Releases AP3800 Automated Laboratory Robot

HACH LANGE has launched AP3800, the latest self-guided laboratory robot. The robot saves labor cost by analyzing several parameters of more than 24 samples using a DR3800 spectrophotometer.

16 Feb 2011

Florida Hospital Surgeon Performs Robotic Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Joseph Boyer of Florida Hospital has performed Florida’s first-ever robot-assisted cardiac procedure.

16 Feb 2011

RoboEarth, Groundbreaking Project for Shared Knowledge

The robot Internet, called RoboEarth, is a groundbreaking project that allows robots to share information with one another.

14 Feb 2011

Robotic Arm Fast Tracked by FDA

Within six months the military plans to begin implanting microchips on the surface of patients' brains to study a prosthetic robotic arm controlled by the user's thoughts, via the chip.

14 Feb 2011

Robot Therapy Improves Mobility After Stroke

Japanese researchers have found that patients with stroke-paralyzed arms and shoulders responded better to robot-assisted exercises (in addition to standard rehabilitation in the sub-acute period) better, as compared with self-training.

14 Feb 2011

Singularity Hub Honors Aethon’s TUG Robots

Singularity Hub has honored Aethon’s TUG robots as one of the Best Robots of 2010. The TUG robots are deployed in around 200 hospitals across the United States.

From Aethon 10 Feb 2011