CIS news

• Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Guidance for the da Vinci 
• Robotic Ultrasound Technology at BK Medical Show
• i-Snake from Imperial College
• World's first intubation robot (also featured on MedGadget)
• A nice TED talk on neurosurgery
• Mazor's spinal robot has been upgraded
• SpineAssist is now selling in Italy and the Netherlands
• MAKO is getting better and better financially
• Robotic-assisted angioplastyű
• Desposable robot for biopsy 
• FDA approval for a Hair Restoration System 
• The global market of surgical robots is to reach $1B by 2014 
• Physcient is to create more gentle surgical tools
• This year's BMEidea competition winners

Conferences:

• IROS Surgical Robotics workshop is still calling for submissions
• Or the M2CAI workshop at MICCAI
• RoBio will take place on the magnificent island of Phuket
• The Intl. Assc. of Clinical Robotic Surgery (CRSA) announced a "Clinical Virtual University"

Positions:

• postdoc is seeked at the Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS), University of Maryland, College  Park
• Senior System Analysist is wanted at Intuitive
• PhD position at ETH Zürich on surgical robotics

A little da Vinci madness from Seattle at the end:


Picture credit: Mazor