CIS news

• King’s College London prototyped a new steerable cardiac ablation catheter
• Micro medical robots on the rise
• 13 ROSA systems sold
• Tiny cameras for swallowable robots
• Digestible robots on the horizon
• Patient education is becoming key in robotics surgery
• NAO robot as a nurse assist (link2)
• Why your post-BREXIT NHS surgeon could be a robot in the future 
• NAVIO's first TKA procedure 
• Auris Surgical Robotics closes $80m Hansen Medical buy
• Dextera and Intuitive initiate joint dev program for new robotic stapler
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• A nice review article appeared on Japanese neurosurgical robots
• Cambridge Medical Robotics pulls in $20.3M of Series A funding
• Restoration Robotics appoints new president and CEO
• Legacy MedSearch is always looking for talents in surgical robotics
• Robotics in Healthcare—Get Ready!
• Europe's surgical robots market is to grow to $400M by 2018  
• Medical robots' market will reach $17 bn by 2020 
• Mount Sinai uses the CaptiView Virtual Reality Tool during neurosurgery

Quote of the week:
"An RBC Capital Markets survey found that U.S. surgeons expect about 35 percent of operations will involve robots in five years, up from 15 percent today"