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Titan Medical Robotic Surgical System Could Revolutionize Surgery

Titan Medical is currently developing an enhanced system called Amadeus for robotic surgery, which would permit the surgeons to experience the pressure exerted by the surgical devices, which are working inside the body.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

Stone Clinic Introduces Robotic Knee Replacements

Dr. Kevin R. Stone, who is an Orthopedic Surgeon, has carried out the first outpatient robotic knee replacement surgery in the San Francisco Surgery Center, which is an outpatient surgery center located near Union Square.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

Adaptive Gripper Launched by Robotiq for Helping Robots

Reducing costs and increasing the flexibility of their operations have become the major priority for manufacturers so that they could respond speedily to the demands posed by their customers.

From Robotiq 19 Apr 2011

Motoman Introduces New Slim SIA Series Robots

Motoman Robotics has launched their SIA series Robots, which include an actuator- based 7 axis design, which helps in wrist performance with greater freedom of movements.

From Yaskawa Motoman 19 Apr 2011

Intuitive Surgical to Integrate Fiber Optic-Based Shape Sensing System into Medical Robotics Products

Luna Innovations has decided to continue to work with Intuitive Surgical for developing and integrating the Shape Sensing Technologies created by Luna into the products devised by Intuitive.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

University of Leeds to Perform Clinical Trial of Robotic-Assisted Keyhole Surgery

The Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) of the University of Leeds will head a clinical trial to determine if robotic approach can be used to eliminate bowel cancer by means of laparoscopic or 'keyhole' methods and also if this method reduces the risk of reoccurrence of bowel cancer.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Ryerson University Students Invent Cost-Effective Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm

Two undergraduate biomedical students from Ryerson University have built Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) arm, a robotic arm controlled by brain signals.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Office of Naval Research to Develop Medical Robot

The Office of Naval Research has declared that it is looking forward to develop the Autonomous Critical Care System (ACCS), a medical robot archetype.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

HighRes Biosolutions’ Uses Innovative Robotic System to Automate NCI’s Biological Samples Library

National Cancer Institute (NCI’s) Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) has chosen HighRes Biosolutions to automate the grouping of around 8 million biological specimens of NCI’s library.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Autistic Children Learn from Kaspar Robot

Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire have developed a robot called Kaspar, which has been programmed to perform small actions like laughing, smiling, blinking, frowning and waving his arms at a cost of 1300 pounds or US$2118.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

U.S. Army Commissions iRobot for Delivery of SUGVs

iRobot declared that the U.S. Army has planned to obtain two more brigade sets of 320 SUGVs (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles).

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Polaris Launches 9300xi Sport Robotic Pool Cleaning System

Zodiac Pool Systems’ Polaris Division has introduced the new 9300xi Sport, which is an advanced robotic pool cleaning technology. The system perfectly complements the Polaris Sport model.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Underwater Robots Track Swimming Penguins

Autonomous robots called gliders have been programmed to follow the routes of Adelie penguins and gather data, which would help scientists to gain insight into the reasons for the rapid fall in the population of birds swimming in the Southern Oceans of Antarctica.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Oleum Tech Partners with McKi Wireless Solutions to Serve Oil and Gas Markets

OleumTech, a company specializing in industrial automation systems, has teamed up with McKi Wireless Solutions, a firm based in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, to improve product and solutions for oil and gas markets in Canada and other countries.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011

Research Report on Proteomics Technologies

Reportlinker.com has introduced a new market research report titled Proteomics – Technologies, Markets and Companies that describes and studies the proteomic technologies, which play a key role in molecular diagnostics, drug discovery and practice of medicine.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011