CIS news

And here we go again! News from around the world:

• Duke robot automates ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy
  
• SRI and Stanford launched MISTRAL collaboration
  
• Latest Intuitive Inc. financial results are in! Market value of Intuitive was estimated to 14B USD.
• Economics of robotic surgery by Mohr
  
• The da Vinci on the Late Night Show in Irish TV
  
• The da Vinci peeling a grape video
• Credentialing standards for robotic surgeons debated
• Eye control for the da Vinci
• A new site to share surgical know-how
• CO2 laser ablation with the Vesalius robot
• BRIGIT bone resection instrument guidance by intelligent tool to assist gesture in orthopedic surgery from MedTech S.A.
  
• A cost effective training system
  
• More details about the Presidential visit at Cleveland Clinic in 2009
• Meetings of the Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA), aiming to become the robotic surgery think tank
• First heart surgery using Hansen's Sensei Robot Arm
• UIC Advanced Robotic Research and Training Lab
  
• The deadline to submit something to RoBio has been extended to 23rd July
• More robotic surgery news