CIS news

• A nice overview of the current surgical robotic landscape
• More on the Preceyes trials
• Orthopaedic robotics on the rise
• Surgical robotics herald the super-surgeon
• GuidaBot receives further NSF funding for MRI-compatible robot development 
• Titan collects money to continue system development 
• Intuitive and Shanghai Fosun Pharma made a joint venture to develop and sell innovative, robotic-assisted, catheter-based devices
• Robots can successfully imitate human motions in the  OR
• Seeking Alpha report: Intuitve's shares are highly overvalued 
• New way to direct synthetic microswimmers towards light or darkness 
• Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision
• Shape-programmable microrobots on the horizon
• A recent study demonstrated the benefits of FloShield with robotic surgery 
• Atlas of Laparoscopic Robotic Surgery - online

• 2 Post-Doc positions in medical robotics at Georgia Tech
• Fully-funded PhD-position on development of smart flexible instruments for robotic surgery at KU Leuven 
• “Surgical Robotics” INTECH open access book CFP