Robotics

  • Handheld robotic device offers personalise knee replacements

    Handheld robotic device offers personalise knee replacements

    Global medical device company Smith+Nephew has launched a ‘turn-key’ robotic-assisted surgical system that is designed to quickly augment the orthopaedic team’s skills set for greater accuracy and improved outcomes. The CORI system is a compact and fully mobile solution that incorporates a 3-D intra-operative imaging system with an advanced robotic sculpting tool. The robotic system [...]

  • Research centre to transform relationship between people and technology

    Research centre to transform relationship between people and technology

    A new national robotics research centre will receive a share of £25m to improve collaborative technology and help unlock the full potential of smart collaborative robotics. The University of Strathclyde is a partner in the Made Smarter Innovation Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robotics, which aims to advance smart manufacturing by eliminating barriers and [...]

  • Stretchable pressure sensor could lead to better robotics and prosthetics

    Stretchable pressure sensor could lead to better robotics and prosthetics

    In the future, soft robotic hands with advanced sensors could help diagnose and care for patients, or act as more lifelike prostheses. Researchers say one roadblock to encoding soft robotic hands with human-like sensing capabilities and dexterity has been the stretchability of pressure sensors. Although pressure sensors, needed for a robotic hand to grasp and [...]

  • European boost for medtech firm Medtronic

    European boost for medtech firm Medtronic

    Medtronic plc has received official approval for the sale of its robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system in Europe. European CE Mark approval of its Hugo system is for urologic and gynecologic procedures, which make up around half of all robotic procedures performed today. Megan Rosengarten, president of the firm’s surgical robotics division, said: "This day has [...]

  • UK medical robotics expanded to Caribbean market

    UK medical robotics expanded to Caribbean market

    Clinicians and tech experts from the UK are helping to make surgery safer and more affordable in the Caribbean, using the latest medical robotics. Imperial Medical Solutions (IMS), of Hartlepool, North East England, has introduced its FreeHand robotic system for minimally invasive surgery across hospitals in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. Surgeons carrying out operations [...]

  • “The cyborg that allowed me to hold my son”

    “The cyborg that allowed me to hold my son”

    Yusuke Terada is a Japanese YouTuber with cerebral palsy. Health Tech World editor spoke to him from Japan to find out all about the wearable Cyberdyne cyborg that has changed his life. Yusuke is 31 and was born cerebral palsy, which means he is largely reliant on a wheelchair. However, in recent years he has [...]