CIS news

• The first Versius will be operational from early next year at NHS hospitals 
• Versius will be offered to hospitals as a managed service
• First heart bypass surgery using a da Vinci in Ireland
• Olympus and FlexDex join forces
• First spinal surgery by a robot completed in Guangzhou 
• First clinical results with the Senhance Surgical Robot
• First private robotic surgery centre opened in Hanoi 
• Da Vinci SP introduced to South Korea 
•  Robotic surgeries continue to evolve at Mercy Health
• Croatia is getting its first da Vinci 
• Interview with Chris Childers from UCLA on the cost of a robotic program
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• CFP: The Acta SI on Platforms for Medical Robot development is still open
• CFP: Special Issue on surgical robotics in the International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
• CFP:   IROS18 - Workshop: Continuum and Soft Robots (CSR) for medical interventions
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• Joint the RSNA Pneumonia Detection Challenge hosted by MD.ai