CIS news
- NASA joins the Nebraska team for advancing their single port robot
- Corindus Vascular Robotics issued and sold 10.66 million shares in a private placement at $2.50 per share
- A nice long analysis from MPO of the surgical robotics market landscape
- Intuitive's Single-Site Wristed Needle Driver cleared by FDAQuestions about efficacy do not go away (neither on cost issues or incidents), yet the stock exchange reacts well to positive news
- Da Vinci related incidents reported to be 722 since 2005. Still no match for issues with open surgery.
- More about the Maxon motors in the da Vinci
- da Vinci Xi at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and at Abrazo Health's West Valley Hospital
- CUMC researchers found that robot-assisted procedures are more expensive: The median total cost for robot-assisted oophorectomy was $7,426, vs. conventional laparoscopic@$4,922. The median total cost for robot-assisted cystectomy was $7,444 vs. $4,133.
- New Simbionix US training module
- Structured Assessment of Robotic Microsurgical Skills (SARMS) released (Read more here.)
- Brain surgery with sound waves
- Spoon robot for feeding impaired people
- More snake robots from OC Robotics
- The future of surgery - as of a Medical Futurist
- Snake Robots Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts: "markets at $33.6 million in 2012 are anticipated to reach $2.3 billion by 2019"
- Surgical Robot Market to reach $19.96 billion by 2019
- TransEnterix receives 25M funding
- Catherine Mohr will be speaking at a special IEEE event this Tuesday in New York
- MEDICA is really on us!
- Catheter robot workshop at MEDICA (Nov. 13.)
- IPCAI, Barcelona, 24 June
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