- MAKO Surgical getting sued for underperforming in 2012Q1
- Stereotaxis is doing fine in the mean while
- Mazor sold two Renaissance systems
- First US procedure with Mazor's Spine Assisst
- New 2.3% medical device tax coming from 2013 in the US
- Titan got it's nice gadget: the single port Columbia robot (video, paper)
- First procedure with the NeuroMate in Peru
- Intuitive's Q1 results shoots the stock prices to record heights
- MScore, MIMIC's new scoring system for the dV trainer.
- Robot-assisted surgery now favored treatment for kidney cancer
- New lawsuit against Intuitive: "it used "intimidation" to "force" hospitals to opt for robot-assisted surgery over safer options"
- QUAN is looking to forge a new investment group to enter the arena of surgical robotics
- Exelcius surgical is willing to develop for 3D-guided spine and brain surgery (developed originally at Dignity Health's Barrow Neurological Institute)
- For more robotic surgery videos, check the complete Youtube topic
- Video of the telerobotics NLI cutting experiment
- An old article about neuroArm
- A nice introduction to IMRIS' 3-room suit (AMIGO)
- Meet SurgicEye, the intra-operative SPECT
- Introduction to Electa's radiosurgery system (they also have an Axesse system)
- Combine surgical robotics, teleoperation and satellite servicing: postdoc position available at JHU
- PhD opening in robotics at the Institute for Medical Science and Technology; University of Dundee
Quote of the week: "Da vinci is a 21st
century device, doing 19th century type surgery, based on the 20th
century MIS paradigm."
/Russell H. Taylor/
Image credit: IMRIS
/Russell H. Taylor/
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