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Invited talk at DMD 2013
Apr. 12, 2013—April 10, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Intraoperative Wireless Tissue Palpation” during the Surgical Robotics session at ASME Design of Medical Devices 2013 conference in Minneapolis, MN.
STORM Lab at the First Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Apr. 12, 2013—April 8, 2013. The poster “Miniaturized Wireless Mechatronic Systems – A Graduate Class on Medical CPS” was presented at the First Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Education in Philadelphia, PA, during CPSWeek 2013.
STORM capsule robots featured by the Vanderbilt Hustler
Apr. 12, 2013—The Vanderbilt Hustler interviewed Pietro Valdastri about STORM Lab activities on swallowable robots. Read the article.
STORM Lab at the Sixth Image-Guided Therapy workshop
Mar. 22, 2013—March 21-23, 2013. The poster “Proof of Concept of Wireless Tissue Palpation in Abdominal Surgery” by M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, M. Rentschler, P. Valdastri was presented at the Sixth Image-Guided Therapy workshop organized in Washington DC by NCIGT, NIH, CNMO.
The other side of collaborative research
Mar. 22, 2013—Since the Wireless Tissue Palpation trial was a success, the STORM Lab group that traveled to Colorado for the experiment enjoyed one full day of skiing at Copper Mountain, CO. Levin Sliker, graduate student in Dr. Rentschler Lab (University of Colorado – Boulder), guided us on the slopes. An awesome day!
First in vivo trial for Wireless Tissue Palpation
Mar. 22, 2013—On March 12, 2013 we completed the first in vivo trial on Wireless Tissue Palpation. The trial was performed at University of Colorado – Anschutz in collaboration with Mark Rentschler, PhD (University of Colorado – Boulder) and Jonathan Schoen, MD (University of Colorado – Anschutz). Wireless Tissue Palpation was effective in creating in real-time a...
STORM Lab at DDW 2013
Feb. 19, 2013—STORM Lab gets four abstract accepted to Digestive Disease Week 2013. Three posters and one oral presentation. Congratulations and see you in Orlando!!!!
New Lab Member
Feb. 19, 2013—STORM Lab welcomes Robert Caprara as new graduate student member. Welcome Robert!