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January 22, 2014. Wireless Tissue Palpation as described by Emily Waltz has been featured on IEEE Spectrum, the main magazine of IEEE. Here a link to the Spectrum webpage. Read More

The STORM Lab research team will be presenting a proposal at the White House Smart America Challenge on Dec 12th to create an open testbed for research in miniature capsule robots [MCR] for medical applications. An MCR is a biocompatible Cyber-Physical System [CPS] designed to operate in… Read More

The STORM Lab research on advanced and painless colonoscopy has been featured on the Vanderbilt Magazine. Read the article here. Read More

December 3, 2013. Brennan Steele — a high school student from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt — received the Best Presentation Award for his research performed in the STORM Lab. Brennan worked with Charreau S. Bell and Ketih L. Obstein on a tablet app to… Read More

December 2, 2013. The STROM Lab welcomes Ekawayhu (Eka) Susilo. Eka completed his PhD with Pietro at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, working on miniature capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and robotic surgery. Eka will be Post-Doc in the STORM Lab. Read More

Wireless Tissue Palpation as described by David Salisbury gets featured in many websites around the globe: NSF, MedGadget, Vanderbilt School of Engineering, QuickVU, Medical Design Technology Magazine, Medical Xpress, Newswise, YouTube and many more…… Read More

October 2013. The study “Laparoscopic Wireless Palpation Device: Preliminary Assessment of Simulated Tumor Detection in an Elastic Modulus” by A. Benson, M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, R. Pickens, P. Valdastri, S. D. Herrell receives the OLYMPUS Best Laparoscopy/Robotic Paper Award at the 31st World Congress of Endourology… Read More

October 29, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at the University of Nebraska, within the Pierson Graduate Seminar Series. Read More

October 25, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at the University of Texas – Arlington, within the Colloquium Speaker Series. Read More

October 2013. Massimiliano Simi receives the Best PhD dissertation in Biomedical Engineering by the Italian Society of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Massi!!!!… Read More