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Obama Announces $70 Million Robotics Initiative

President Obama has announced a $70 million initiative to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or co-operatively with people. The proposal has been called the National Robotics Initiative and is backed by a number of government run agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

27 Jun 2011

i-Snake Team Bags the Best Medical Robotics Paper Award

Students at the Hamlyn centre of the Imperial College of London are working on i-Snake, which is a flexible robot that is helpful in minimally invasive surgery.

27 Jun 2011

Robotic Prostatectomy Proves More Effective in Treating Prostrate Cancer

Drug based treatment of metastatic prostate cancer using recently approved drugs like Provenge and Yervoy have shown a considerable increase in the survival rates.

27 Jun 2011

KIMS to Perform First Robot Assisted Surgery in South India

Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) will be performing the first ever robot assisted surgery in South India.

24 Jun 2011

Japanese Scientists Create Self-Propelled Endoscopy Capsule

Japanese scientists and medical researchers have come up with a self propelled and remote controlled capsule endoscope which can swim through the digestive tract. The researchers have successfully captured images inside a person’s stomach and colon using the device.

23 Jun 2011

Magnetecs to Present Robotic Catheter Guidance System at EHRA Europace Congress

Magnetecs announced that an abstract presentation of the research assisted by the Catheter Guidance Control Imaging (CGCI) system performed by Dr.Jose Luis Merino Llorens at the Universitario La Paz in Madrid, Spain will be presented at the EHRA Europace Congress on the 27th of June 2011.

23 Jun 2011

Aethon Introduces Robo-Nurses for Simplifying Job of Hospital Medical Staff

Aethon has built Robo-Nurses, which could be used in executing menial tasks so that nurses can spend more time attending to the patient’s need. These Robo-nurses are called TUGs and are being used for the first time in hospitals to perform tasks such as delivering medication, linen, food and laboratory specimens to the wards and waste removal.

From Aethon 23 Jun 2011

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Build Cognitive Robots to Help in Clinical Diagnosis

Researchers at the Vanderbilt University have come up with a system of cognitive robots, which would be of great help in reducing the wait time for physicians and staff at the emergency departments in America.

22 Jun 2011

Da Vinci Surgical Robot Helps in Performing Bladder Augmentation Surgery

Andrew Baniecki has been affected by spina bifida, a neurological disease that results in incomplete formation of the spine.

22 Jun 2011

Robotic Telemedicine Considered Safe by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

The neonatologist team at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have investigated the use of the remote-controlled, robotic telemedicine in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and have submitted a report that indicates that the system is safe to use.

20 Jun 2011