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Medication Robot Provider Announces Compliance with Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Health Robotics today announced that, effective January 1, 2013, it will fully comply with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including maximum health insurance benefits for its USA-based employees.

From Health Robotics 28 Dec 2012

Medical Robotics Expert Wins Patients' Choice Award

Among the select few physicians honored with the prestigious Patients' Choice Award this year is Dr. Ivan Colon.

27 Dec 2012

NCKU Develops Intelligent Robot for Physically Challenged People

A new generation of intelligent robot with functions of mobility, lifting, and standing for the disabled called “i-Transport,” which can be adjusted to the user’s height and position while taking stuff or talking to others, has been developed by a National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) research team.

26 Dec 2012

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Successfully Completes Transoral Robotic Surgery

Leonidas Hill recently made history at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, when the 5-year-old became the first pediatric patient in the western United States to undergo transoral robotic surgery (TORS) - a minimally invasive surgery performed with the help of a robot - to repair a rare congenital condition known as a laryngeal cleft.

24 Dec 2012

Robotics and Virtual Reality Hold Potential to Advance Neurosurgery

Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, according to a special supplement to Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

21 Dec 2012

Medrobotics Announces Completion of Series D Financing

Medrobotics Corp., an emerging medical robotics company developing the innovative Flex™ Robotic System, announced today the conversion of notes totaling $33.6 Million purchased through recent financings into Series D Preferred Stock.

21 Dec 2012

Bionic Suit Provides Hope to Wheelchair-Bound Individuals

After transferring himself from a wheelchair into a robotic suit, onlookers held their breath with excitement as they watched 27-year-old Aaron Bloom grip the handles of specially designed crutches, raise to his full height, and walk at Huntington Memorial Hospital's Outpatient Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday.

21 Dec 2012