Robotics
Ergéa UK, a vendor-neutral provider of Managed Equipment Services (MES), has published a comprehensive white paper exploring how modern MES solutions can help expand patient access to radiotherapy across the UK. Titled “Radiotherapy MES: A Planned Long-Term Solution to the UK Radiotherapy Crisis,” the paper outlines how a radiotherapy MES provides a structured, funded, and [...]
A Canadian engineering team has collaborated with researchers at a children's hospital to create a set of tiny robotic tools that could enable keyhole surgery in the brain. In a new study, the team demonstrated the ability of these tools — only about 3 millimetres in diametre — to grip, pull and cut tissue. Their [...]
A three-year US$600,000 will help researchers develop intelligent assistive robotics as part of a new research project, Mobile Robot Manipulators for Learning and Executing Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. For people with upper extremity disabilities such as a stroke, multiple sclerosis or other conditions, assistive robotics can help restore their independence in performing everyday tasks [...]
Dave Walsha, a director at Electro Mechanical Systems (EMS), on the role of advanced motor design in developing neurosurgical robots. Surgical robots have already improved procedures such as appendectomies and colectomies in general surgery. Their precision leads to fewer complications, minimised scarring and quicker recovery times. However, neurosurgery presents an even greater challenge due to [...]
Researchers have created the smallest walking robot yet. The robot has been designed to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can manoeuvre to specific locations – in a tissue sample, for instance – to take images and measure forces at the scale of some [...]
A tiny, four-fingered “hand” folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes Covid-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection, and can even block viral particles from entering cells to infect them. Dubbed the NanoGripper, the nanorobotic hand also could be programmed to interact with other viruses or to recognise cell [...]
A surgical team has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant in the world. The procedure marks a breakthrough in the potential of robotic surgery and minimally invasive patient care. The team transplanted both lungs into a 57-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the da Vinci Xi robotic system at each [...]
A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic [...]
An advanced robotic system at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is changing the way physicians and scientists approach treatments for heart disease. Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death among young adults. Without any treatment, a heart transplant remains the only curative option for those living with the inherited condition. [...]
Scientists in Germany are aiming to improve the capabilities of millimetre-sized robots used in endoscopic microsurgery. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center have combined several of the 'TrainBots' into one unit and equipped them with improved 'feet'. For the first time, they have been able to perform an electric surgical procedure on a bile [...]
