For Viola Addison the emergency heart surgery at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) was life changing and she had robotics to thank for it. The cardiac surgery team that operated on her closed a hole in the heart during the operation. The LHSC is not new to robotic surgery but the procedure was used for the first time in an emergency surgery on Viola.
The next time you get wheeled in for surgery in Denver a robot may be performing some surgical procedures on you. Robotic surgery is no longer what you read about in science fiction stories but a daily fact for the Porter Adventist Hospital situated in Denver. The hospital has been building a comprehensive team of surgeons and staff who are well equipped to usher in the age of robotic surgery.
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire are incorporating cognitive skills into a new robot, which is to help people who have damaged limbs to walk again.
Statistics indicate that every year over 180,000 men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which is one of the most common cancer diseases in the country.
A number of research and development professionals in the field of robotics are meeting for a two day national symposium in Dighi, Pune.
A group of Girl Scouts consisting of girls from the age group of 11-13 years, called the Flying Monkeys who were from Ames in Iowa, have developed a prosthetic hand for helping a three year old girl child to write.
The Universal Couchtop (UCT) and Protura Robotic Patient Positioning System, developed by CIVCO Medical Solutions, have been installed in the Zurich University in Switzerland and in the Moores Cancer Center in San Diego in the US, two top cancer centers for clinical use.
Titan Medical has declared that it has entered into a service agreement with the leader in haptic and three-dimensional software simulation, SenseGraphics.
For the first time, a neurosurgeon in Quebec has completed a procedure by removing a brain tumor from a patient, utilizing a three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging and a robotic arm. Dr. David Fortin performed the innovative surgery at the Sherbrooke University Hospital last fall.
Royal Philips Electronics has bought a minority stake in the Natick based private company Corindus Vascular Robotics. Corindus is a startup company that makes an experimental robot that places stents, balloon catheters and coronary guidewires. The Dutch company hopes to collaborate with Corindus to use the minimally invasive robots in its on cardiology related products.
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