POSTS TAGGED AS robotics

Surgical Robot for Neurovascular Work

Corindus vascular robotics
In a “first-in-humans” procedure, neurovascular surgeons at Toronto Western Hospital used a “Corindus” (Waltham, MA) robot to control [MORE]

Light, Hydrogel and OsciBots

Light-pushed robot
Here’s an update on “Fantastic Voyage.”  “Engineers at University of Los Angles have come up with a tiny new [MORE]

Perspective on “Collaborative Robots”

HighRes robotic system
This piece has an interview with the CEO of HighRes Biosolutions (Beverly, MA) about robotics in laboratory automation [MORE]

Robot MD

Artificial intelligence
It is an argument worth having, whether a human medical diagnostician, who may see a thousand cases of a [MORE]

First Non-Invasive Mind-Computer Interface

Non invasive brain computer interface
In a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and University of Minnesota, engineers, using a noninvasive brain-computer interface, [MORE]

Force Sensing in Medical Devices

Force sensing technology
This piece from sensor maker, Tekscan, Inc. (South Boston, MA) describes the many applications of force sensing in [MORE]

Medical Drone, Carrying Lab Specimens, Crashes

Drone transports donated kidney
Here’s the good news and the bad.  In the more recent story a drone was able to [MORE]

Clinical Microscopy using Artificial Intelligence

AI microscopes
Self-driving cars are one thing, but how about “self-driving instruments,” such as microscopes, which through artificial intelligence can carry [MORE]

Robotic Catheter in the Heart

Robotic catheter
Robotic catheters have been in use for some time, but this piece describes one, developed at Harvard Medical School, [MORE]

A Robotic Biologic Pill

RaniPill
“Upon entering the small intestine, the RaniPill capsule inflates a small balloon, which then pushes drug-loaded needles into the wall [MORE]

MEMS Soft Robots

Modular soft robotic microdevices
In this piece, engineers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne describe this technology for manufacturing soft [MORE]

Rutgers’s Phlebotomy Robot also Does Testing

Rutgers Venipuncture robot
Over the past year, Rutgers University engineers have put together three existing technologies to automate phlebotomy and blood [MORE]

Future of Robotic Surgery

Da Vinci Xi Intuitive Surgical
In the two decades since Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale, CA) introduced its “daVinci” robot, the company has [MORE]

Precise Needle Navigation

XACT Robotics needle steering and insertion system
Invasive surgery depends on steady hands, but even the steadiest might have trouble compensating [MORE]