CIS news

• Surgical robot purchase increases prostatectomy rate
• Titan's Amadeus updates: first test results of the console & Amadeus got a decent display and system integration deal 
• Learn more about the da Vinci simulator! It's getting very popular. (So does ROSS.) 
• A nice article on the $98K MIMIC trainer form 2010
• Happend over a year ago: spine surgery robot put into trial in China
  Old news, but still fun: MIT student design competition on surgical robots
• Journal Impact Factors for CAS Research
• ROBIO (December, in Phuket) is still accepting Late Results contributions
• Post-doc position in the Italian Institute of Technology
• Postdoctoral position in Bioinspired Robotics and Medical Device Design at Harvard
• MechE professor position at Hopkins

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