Service Robots > Medical Robots

A new hi tech imaging technique developed in Germany using an imaging robot called “Nanozoomer” makes it possible for the first time to automatically reproduce and evaluate tissue slices in ultra high resolution and in various planes. Researchers are calling this a quantum leap in tissue research. Please click below for original article at upi. Reference: upi.com/Science_News/2008/07/07/Robot_imager_evaluates_tiny_tissue_slices/UPI-12941215446635/ Read More

A precise heart surgery has been performed in Melbourne, Australia, to remove a tumour from a delicate region of a 77 old woman’s heart. The robotic system called “da Vinci” which has been used by the hospital since 2004, has performed about 200 operations so far. The robot copies the movements of heart surgeons with much more presicion and reduces the hand tremors to zero. […] Read More

UT Health Science Center, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care have removed more kidney, bladder tumors with the technology than any academic center in Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Dipen Parekh, M.D., a urologic oncologist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, deftly operates the handles and pedals of a console located 6 feet away from his patient’s operating table. The handles and pedals […] Read More

Health Robotics announces IV Station (TM Pending) a centrallycontrolled, modular, distributed, flexible, redundant, patient-specific intra-venous (IV) Automation Robot for non-hazardous drug preparation, compounding, and dispensing in central pharmacylocations, satellite pharmacies, and even patient care workplaces.Health Robotics, the worldwide leader in the robotic automation of patient specific IV Admixtures today announced IV Station (TM Pending), a new IV automation solution that complements CytoCare™, the company’s award […] Read More