Surgical Technology & Medical Robotics Challenges, Searches or Forum Topics - MedTech I.Q.2024-03-29T14:22:03Zhttps://medtechiq.ning.com/group/surgicalrobotics/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noNext Generation Surgical Robots: Where's the Doctor?tag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-07-21:2140535:Topic:339412010-07-21T10:20:41.707ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br>As reported in ScienceDaily ... As physician-guided robots routinely operate on patients
at most major hospitals, the next generation robot could eliminate a surprising element from that scenario -- the doctor.<strong>..…<br></br></strong><a class="red" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/"></a><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/medical_imaging/" rel="tag"></a><div id="seealso"></div>
Colleagues,<br/><br/>As reported in ScienceDaily ... As physician-guided robots routinely operate on patients
at most major hospitals, the next generation robot could eliminate a surprising element from that scenario -- the doctor.<strong>..<br/></strong><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/" class="red"></a><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/medical_imaging/" class="blue" rel="tag"></a><div id="seealso"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/" class="red"></a><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/computers_math/artificial_intelligence/" class="blue" rel="tag"></a><div><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/" class="red"></a><br/></div>
... Feasibility studies conducted by Duke University bioengineers have demonstrated that a robot -- without any human assistance -- can locate a man-made, or phantom, lesion in simulated human organs, guide a device to the lesion and take multiple samples during a single session. The researchers believe that as the technology is further developed,autonomous robots could some day perform many more simple surgical tasks...</div>
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... The results of the Duke research appear in the current issue of the journal <em>Ultrasonic Imaging</em>. An earlier study reported in the January issue of the journal <em>Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology</em><p>described the Duke team's results on simulated breast tissue...</p>
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<p> ... The Duke team combined a "souped-up" version of an existing robot arm with an ultrasound system of its own design. The ultrasound serves as the robot's "eyes" by collecting data from its scan and locating its target. The robot is "controlled" not by a physician, but by an artificial intelligence program that takes the real-time 3-D information, processes it and gives the robot specific commands to perform. The robot arm has a mechanical "hand" that can manipulate the same biopsy plunger device that physicians use to reach a lesion and take samples...</p>
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<p>... The research in the laboratory of Stephen Smith, director of the Duke University Ultrasound Transducer Group at the Pratt School of Engineering and senior member of the research team, is supported by the National Institutes of Health... <br/> Medical Center.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/" class="red"><strong>References</strong></a></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/r/robotic_surgery.htm" class="blue">Robotic surgery</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/r/robot_calibration.htm" class="blue">Robot calibration</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/n/nanorobotics.htm" class="blue">Nanorobotics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/i/industrial_robot.htm" class="blue">Industrial robot</a></li>
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<p>Read on at: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720131856.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720131856.htm</a></p>
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<br/><p><br/></p> Computers are Learning to Listen ... and Some are Talking Backtag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-06-26:2140535:Topic:327012010-06-26T12:51:10.268ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br>As reported in the New York Times ... For decades, computer scientists have been pursuing artificial
intelligence — the use of computers to simulate human thinking. But in recent years, rapid progress has been made in machines that can listen, speak, see, reason and learn, in their way...<br></br><br></br>... The artificial intelligence technology that has moved furthest into
the mainstream is computer understanding of what humans are saying. People increasingly talk to their…
Colleagues,<br/><br/>As reported in the New York Times ... For decades, computer scientists have been pursuing artificial
intelligence — the use of computers to simulate human thinking. But in recent years, rapid progress has been made in machines that can listen, speak, see, reason and learn, in their way...<br/><br/>... The artificial intelligence technology that has moved furthest into
the mainstream is computer understanding of what humans are saying. People increasingly talk to their cellphones to find things, instead of typing. Both <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Google Inc" class="meta-org">Google</a>’s and Microsoft’s search services now respond to voice commands...<br/><br/>... The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">number of American
doctors using speech software to record and transcribe accounts of patient visits and treatments has more than tripled in the past three years to 150,000.</span> The progress is striking. A few years ago, supraspinatus (a rotator cuff muscle) got translated as “fish banana.” Today, the software transcribes all kinds of medical terminology letter perfect, doctors say...<br/><br/>
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<br/><br/>... A host of companies — <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/at_and_t/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about AT&T Corp" class="meta-org">AT&T</a>,
Microsoft, Google and startups — are investing in services that hint at the concept of machines that can act on spoken commands... <br/><br/>...Perhaps the furthest along is <a href="http://siri.com/">Siri</a>, a Silicon Valley company offering a
“virtual personal assistant,” a collection of software programs that can listen to a request, find information and take action..<br/><br/>...<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/apple_computer_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Apple Inc." class="meta-org">Apple</a> is
so impressed that it bought Siri in April in a private transaction estimated at more than $200 million...<br/><br/>... In cars, too, speech recognition systems have vastly improved. In just
three years, the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/ford_motor_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Ford Motor Company" class="meta-org">Ford<br/>
Motor Company</a>, using Nuance software, has increased the number of speech commands its vehicles recognize from 100 words to 10,000 words and phrases... <br/> <br/>Read on at: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/science/25voice.html?th&emc=th">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/science/25voice.html?th&emc=th</a><br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/> General Dynamics-led Consortia Awarded $220 million Army Robotics R&D Granttag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-06-18:2140535:Topic:323032010-06-18T11:28:51.862ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br><p>... A consortium of academics and companies led by a unit of <span style="font-weight: bold;">General Dynamics</span> received an Army research grant to work on the technology for robotic air and ground systems worth up to $220 million ...</p>
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<p>... the university and corporate alliance will work on four…</p>
Colleagues,<br/><br/><p>... A consortium of academics and companies led by a unit of <span style="font-weight: bold;">General Dynamics</span> received an Army research grant to work on the technology for robotic air and ground systems worth up to $220 million ...</p>
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<p>... the university and corporate alliance will work on four <a id="KonaLink1" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important;" href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/06/09/GD-led-team-to-advance-unmanned-tech/UPI-40791276105106/#" name="KonaLink1"><font style="color: blue ! important; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px;" color="blue"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; border-bottom: 1px solid blue; background-color: transparent;">technology</span></font></a> areas including "<span style="font-weight: bold;">perception, intelligence, human-robot interaction,</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">dexterous manipulation and unique mobility</span>."</p>
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<p>... The consortium is led by General Dynamics Robotics Systems. The money includes a $63 million, five-year research agreement, a second five-year option worth $67 million, and a technology-transition contract worth up to $90 million...</p>
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<p>... The other members of the consortium are <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Central Florida, Florida A&M University, the Jet Propulsion<br/>
Laboratory/Caltech University, QinetiQ North America</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boston Dynamics</span>...</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/06/09/GD-led-team-to-advance-unmanned-tech/UPI-40791276105106/">http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/06/09/GD-led-team-to-advance-unmanned-tech/UPI-40791276105106/</a><br/></p>
<br/><a href="http://www.rttnews.com/Content/BreakingNews.aspx?Id=1328062&SM=1">http://www.rttnews.com/Content/BreakingNews.aspx?Id=1328062&SM=1</a><br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/> DARPA Seeking Smart Camera With Visual Intelligencetag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-03-21:2140535:Topic:295552010-03-21T16:01:31.493ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will conduct a briefing to Industry, on April 20, 2010, in support of the anticipated Mind’s Eye program Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)...<br></br><br></br>... The Mind’s Eye program seeks to develop in machines a capability that currently exists only in animals: visual intelligence...<br></br><br></br>... One of the desired capabilities resulting from this new form of visual intelligence is a smart camera, with sufficient visual…
Colleagues,<br/><br/>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will conduct a briefing to Industry, on April 20, 2010, in support of the anticipated Mind’s Eye program Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)...<br/><br/>... The Mind’s Eye program seeks to develop in machines a capability that currently exists only in animals: visual intelligence...<br/><br/>... One of the desired capabilities resulting from this new form of visual intelligence is a smart camera, with sufficient visual intelligence that it can report on activity in an area of observation. A camera with this kind of visual intelligence could be employed as a payload on a broad range of persistent stare surveillance platforms, from fixed surveillance systems, which would conceivably benefit from abundant computing power, to camera‐equipped perch‐and‐stare micro air vehicles, which would impose extreme limitations on payload size and available computing power. For the purpose of this research, employment of this capability on man‐portable unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is assumed...<br/><br/>To learn more see: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/MindsEyeIndustryDay">http://tinyurl.com/MindsEyeIndustryDay</a>.<br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/> SensAble Pulls in $8M in New Investmenttag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-03-09:2140535:Topic:293732010-03-09T15:42:13.926ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br> ... SensAble Technologies, a Woburn,
MA-based maker of 3D modeling and haptic systems for product design, medical modeling, dental restoration, and digital content creation, has pulled in $8 million in a mixed equity offering, according to an SEC filing...<br></br><br></br>... Existing SensAble investor HLM Venture Partners led the round, which also
included North Bridge Venture Partners ... <br></br><br></br>... SensAble will use the new capital
to better compete in the $3 billion…
Colleagues,<br/><br/> ... SensAble Technologies, a Woburn,
MA-based maker of 3D modeling and haptic systems for product design, medical modeling, dental restoration, and digital content creation, has pulled in $8 million in a mixed equity offering, according to an SEC filing...<br/><br/>... Existing SensAble investor HLM Venture Partners led the round, which also
included North Bridge Venture Partners ... <br/><br/>... SensAble will use the new capital
to better compete in the $3 billion worldwide market for dental restoration equipment and supplies. In 2008 SensAble introduced the SensAble Dental Lab System ... a solution that helps dental labs of all sizes migrate to the use of digital tools in scanning, designing, and fabricating dental prosthetics and oral devices<span class="main"><span class="main">.<br/><br/>Read on at: <a href="http://www.sensable.com/pr_20100308SDLS-Funding/news-press-detail.htm">http://www.sensable.com/pr_20100308SDLS-Funding/news-press-detail.htm</a><br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/></span></span> Army Seeks Robotic Combat Casualty Extraction Systems ... Proposal Deadline 24 March 2010tag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-03-07:2140535:Topic:293162010-03-07T23:52:27.773ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br>The U.S. Army is seeking to
design, model, and prototype a near autonomous modular robotic combat casualty extraction system that can be readily implemented on any JAUS compliant military unmanned vehicle mobility system to pick up and extract wounded or otherwise injured personnel with minimal intervention by medic or other first responders operators within the varied array of operational environments of modern battlefields...<br></br><br></br>... MedTech-IQ member…
Colleagues,<br/><br/>The U.S. Army is seeking to
design, model, and prototype a near autonomous modular robotic combat casualty extraction system that can be readily implemented on any JAUS compliant military unmanned vehicle mobility system to pick up and extract wounded or otherwise injured personnel with minimal intervention by medic or other first responders operators within the varied array of operational environments of modern battlefields...<br/><br/>... MedTech-IQ member <span class="fn"><a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CraigCarignan?xg_source=profiles_memberList">Craig Carignan</a> is one of the topic authors, which is being competed under the</span> Small Business Technology Transfer (<em>STTR</em>) program, topic # A10a-T028 (Army). <br/><br/>... STTR proposals require the participation of a small business in partnership with a research institution. The <strong>STTR Program</strong> provides up to $<span style="font-weight: bold;">850,000 i</span>n early-stage
R&D funding directly to small companies working cooperatively with researchers at universities and other research institutions...<br/><br/>... Details on the STTR program, and this topic, ect. can be found at: <a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CraigCarignan?xg_source=profiles_memberList">http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis/display_topic.asp?Bookmark=38345</a>.<br/><br/>Other useful MedTech-IQ resources include: <br/><br/><a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/forum/topics/new-sbirsttr-partnership">New SBIR/STTR Partnership & Topic Database Available</a><h1><br/></h1>
<br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/> Top Robotics “Hits” of the Decade ...tag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-01-06:2140535:Topic:283322010-01-06T19:43:31.201ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br />
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Robotics has begun to make the transition from the scientific fringes to having a major operational impact in the day to day lives of millions of people. From war to medicine, robots, both autonomous and controlled, are integrating into how we as humans extend our capabilities. Here is list compiled from various sources of some of the high impact developments in robotics over the decade, just past ...<br />
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1. Remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft/drones in the U.S. military.<br />
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Colleagues,<br />
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Robotics has begun to make the transition from the scientific fringes to having a major operational impact in the day to day lives of millions of people. From war to medicine, robots, both autonomous and controlled, are integrating into how we as humans extend our capabilities. Here is list compiled from various sources of some of the high impact developments in robotics over the decade, just past ...<br />
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1. Remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft/drones in the U.S. military.<br />
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2. Ground based, supervised military robots.<br />
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3. Autonomous home cleaning robots.<br />
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4. Surgical Robotics expanding procedures and exceeding a 3,000 unit installed based<br />
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5. Autonomous vehicles in the two DARPA grand challenge demonstrations.<br />
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6. Health Telepresence Robots in clinical and assisted living settings.<br />
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7. Deployed automated logistics robots in fulfillment centers.<br />
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8. Advanced robotic prosthesis<br />
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9. EKG and 3D Human Computer Interface (HCI) control systems<br />
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10. Early stage controlled & autonomous robotic evacuation systems<br />
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Read on and see these developments at: <a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=robotics">http://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=robotics</a><br />
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To see MIT Tech Review's 2009 Year in Review: Robots click here: <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24231/?a=f">http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24231/?a=f</a><br />
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CC iRobot .... Commits to the Home Healthcare Markettag:medtechiq.ning.com,2009-12-03:2140535:Topic:274312009-12-03T12:50:40.152ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
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As reported in XConomy ... Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) made headlines last month with the announcement of its recently created healthcare division, which is being headed by veteran software entrepreneur Tod Loofbourrow. The company’s ambitious plan is to develop a robot to help seniors live independently in their homes—something that no other company has accomplished. ..<br />
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... The senior citizen ... is the first demographic iRobot aims to serve with a…
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As reported in XConomy ... Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) made headlines last month with the announcement of its recently created healthcare division, which is being headed by veteran software entrepreneur Tod Loofbourrow. The company’s ambitious plan is to develop a robot to help seniors live independently in their homes—something that no other company has accomplished. ..<br />
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... The senior citizen ... is the first demographic iRobot aims to serve with a healthcare robot. There could be tremendous value in a robot that could help seniors live at home and avoid nursing homes, Loofbourrow explained, noting that the average nursing home in Massachusetts costs about $10,000 a month...<br />
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... the leadership of iRobot decided that the time is right to launch a healthcare division, Loofbourrow said. The company has been interested in how its robots could be used to help patients for more than a decade. Indeed, company chairman and CEO Colin Angle told me back in 2006 that a robot for home healthcare was about three years from the market ... Healthcare could eventually become a major business for iRobot, which already has succeeded in introducing robots like the Roomba for the household market and the PackBot for the military market ... “The company sees an opportunity to really transform a market,” Loofbourrow said. “So I’m here to build a very big business and a third leg of the stool for iRobot.”...<br />
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... Loofbourrow said he doesn’t believe there will be much competition from other robotics firms in the home healthcare market. (It’s true that no companies have successfully launched a home healthcare robot for mainstream use, but plenty of companies such as MobileRobots of Amherst, MA, and Santa Barbara, CA-based InTouch Health make robots for use in hospitals.) ...<br />
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... Despite its relative successes with the Roomba vacuuming and Scooba mopping robots, the company decided to forgo a full commercial launch of its ConnectR—a robot that people can control from their PCs that offers video and audio to virtually visit with loved ones—after it didn’t gain enough interest from in consumers in a limited market release of the robot in 2008. However, the company may be the best positioned to move into the healthcare market because of its expertise in manufacturing and marketing home robotics...<br />
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“Healthcare is a funny market; it’s one of the markets in which who pays, who benefits, and who uses it could be three different people,” Loofbourrow said. “So to do something right in healthcare you need to have a holistic plan that addresses all three of those things.”...<br />
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Ryan McBride is Xconomy's correspondent for this story. You can reach him at rmcbride@xconomy.com, or follow him on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/Ryan_McBride">http://twitter.com/Ryan_McBride</a>.<br />
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CC Visionary Products gets federal grant for robotic armtag:medtechiq.ning.com,2009-10-05:2140535:Topic:250122009-10-05T15:23:08.747ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
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As reported in The Salt Lake Tribune ... Visionary Products Inc. is pioneering a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, trying to help robots develop a finely tuned virtual sense of touch.<br />
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... Developing that sense of touch opens up a whole new range of potential applications that are too delicate or precise to perform...The work is being backed by a $100,000 federal small business research grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ('Stimulus"…
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As reported in The Salt Lake Tribune ... Visionary Products Inc. is pioneering a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, trying to help robots develop a finely tuned virtual sense of touch.<br />
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... Developing that sense of touch opens up a whole new range of potential applications that are too delicate or precise to perform...The work is being backed by a $100,000 federal small business research grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ('Stimulus" funding) to develop "force-reflective dexterous tele-robotic manipulators."..<br />
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... the National Science Foundation has distributed more than $25 million worth of grants nationwide in federal stimulus funds and has more than $2 billion to award....<br />
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CC Technique Distinguishes Malignant Tumor Cells From Healthy Tissue In Real Time During Surgerytag:medtechiq.ning.com,2009-10-02:2140535:Topic:249472009-10-02T11:17:03.636ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttps://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br />
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As reported in Science Daily ... a German-Hungarian research team has developed a mass-spectrometry-based technique by which tissues can be analyzed during a surgical procedure...<br />
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As the team led by Zoltán Takáts reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it may be possible to distinguish between malignant tumor cells and the surrounding healthy tissue in real time during cancer surgery. Until now, precise histological examination of the…
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As reported in Science Daily ... a German-Hungarian research team has developed a mass-spectrometry-based technique by which tissues can be analyzed during a surgical procedure...<br />
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As the team led by Zoltán Takáts reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it may be possible to distinguish between malignant tumor cells and the surrounding healthy tissue in real time during cancer surgery. Until now, precise histological examination of the removed tissue has followed after tumor surgery, and has required several days. If it reveals that the tumor has not been completely removed, a second operation is needed. The new method may spare patients this second surgery in the future.<br />
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Instead of the classic scalpel, surgeons operate with an electroscalpel ... In electrosurgery, tissue is locally exposed to high-frequency electrical current in order to guide a cut, remove tissue, or halt bleeding. The tissue being treated becomes very hot and is partially vaporized. The electrical current also generates electrically charged molecules during the vaporization...<br />
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... The team of scientists from the University of Giessen, the Budapest firm Massprom, Semmelweis University, and the National Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene, also in Budapest, made use of this process for their new method called rapid evaporation ionization mass spectrometry, or REIMS. They equipped an electrosurgical instrument with a special pump that sucks the vaporized cell components up through a tube and introduces the charged molecules into a mass spectrometer...<br />
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Read on at: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929091930.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929091930.htm</a><br />
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