FDA has cleared ProPep’s Nerve Monitoring System, the first real-time nerve monitoring system specifically designed for use during robotic surgery.
Medical Robotics
“Are Thunderbirds Go?”; Another Swimming Robot May Propel Itself Through Bloodstream
It’s friday, what the heck, we’re allowed to “brainstorm”. Research work from Stanford’s Department of Engineering have presented a miniature, swimming robot which could theoretically end up drilling plaque out of occluded blood vessels.
Crab-like Endoscopic Robot For Excision Of Stomach Cancers
In the ultimate embodiment of biomimetics, Singapore researchers have taken inspiration from a seafood dinner to develop a robot which can isolate and excise the tiniest lesions endoscopically.
Robot Surgery Questioned: Will This Slow Adoption?
Robot Surgery questioned on patient benefit and economics in USA study.
FDA Clearance For da Vinci Vessel Sealer: CE Mark Next?
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. has announced that it received FDA clearance to market its EndoWrist® One™ Vessel Sealer instrument for use with the da Vinci® Si™ Surgical System.
CUREXO Technology Corporation Names Brent D. Mittelstadt as President & CEO
CUREXO Technology Corporation, pioneer in medical robotics and world leader in image-directed robotic products for orthopaedic applications, announced the addition of Brent D. Mittelstadt to its senior management team as President and Chief Executive Officer.