CIS news

This week's selection of news from around the world:

• New laser tools our out for the da Vinci (with a RevoLix Jr Continuous Wave Surgical Laser)
• Accuray installs the 200th CyberKnife
• AUTOMATICA2010: Medical robotics on display
  
• Immersion's haptic technology will be used with the Italian ALF-X robot
• KUKA robots for medical applications
• Robotic patient positioning at the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center
  
• The MAKO robot in use
• The VESALIUS robot moves ahead
• Bloodbot for precise blood sampling
• Some new da Vinci pics
  
• On Waseda University’s Heartbeat Compensation Robot
• Older Hungarian article on robotic surgery from Reader's Digest
• Beating Heart surgery device at Harvard
  
• SILS results to compare with classical laparoscopy
• A laparoscopic training box for kids

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