CIS new

• TransEnterix changes name to Asensus Surgical
•  Asensus Surgical scores general surgery clearance for its Senhance robot
• Vanderbilt's new $2m NIH grant advances less invasive procedure for TLE
• Doosan Robotics works with Severance university hospital to develop surgical robots 
• Fusion Robotics receives 510(k) clearance for Spinal Navigation & Robotics System
  
• Fusion Robotics wins FDA clearance
• What's the outlook for ISRG?
  
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• PRISMA Lab and ICAROS Center (University of Naples Federico II) seeks to recruit a postdoctoral research fellow
  
• CFPs:
• Raven/dVRK Surgical Robotics Research Symposium: Session 1 - March 11, 2021 
  
• T-RO ​Special Issue on Small-scale Robotics Inside the Human Body
• Frontiers in Robotics and AI ​Special Issues Flexible Surgical Robotics: Design, Modeling, Sensing and Control
• Force and Shape Sensing Techniques for Surgical Instruments and Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Skill Learning in Robot-Assistive Surgery  
  
• MDPI Actuators Special Issue Soft Robots in Medical Applications
• MDPI Sensors ​Special Issue Medical Robotics
• ISMR 2021 & Fall School on Medical Robotics 2021 Fall School on Medical Robotics (Nov. 15-17, 2021) 2021 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (Nov. 17-19, 2021) 
• 11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems(BMS2021), Ghent, Belgium, 19-22 September 2021