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October 17-18, 2013. The first year results of the NSF-CPS Project “CPS-Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices” were presented at the Fourth Annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators meeting in Arlington, VA. Here you can download the poster that has been presented. Read More

September 20, 2013. The official blog of the Vanderbilt University Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization featured the NSF I-Corps grant awarded to PI Valdastri and EndoInSight, a Vanderbilt startup founded by Byron Smith. Follow the link for the press release and a video interview to the… Read More

September 4, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at GeorgiaTech, within the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Seminar Series. Read More

Aug 8, 2013. The proposal “Development and pre-clinical validation of a soft-tethered endoscopic robot to replace colonoscopy” has been approved for funding by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation within the Broad Medical Research Program. The project will start on October 1st, 2013 and will last one year. Read More

July 12, 2013. Brennan Steele presented the poster “Tablet Technology to Improve Colonoscopy” by B. A. Steele, C. S. Bell, K. L. Obstein, P. Valdastri at the Student Research Symposium organized at Vanderbilt University by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach. The organizing committee selected Brennan’s poster… Read More

July 2, 2013. Pietro Valdastri presented “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at the PhD Course on Modular Surgical Robotics organized by the NEAR Lab in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Read More

June 19, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Wireless Tissue Palpation to Guide Tumor Resection in Minimally Invasive Surgery” at the Medical Microsystems session at TRANSDUCERS 2013 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Read More

May 17, 2013. The STORM Lab presented three posters and one lecture at Digestive Disease Week 2013 in Orlando, FL. The STORM Lab team at DDW was composed by Marco, Ines, Keith and Pietro. Here Pietro explaning Christian’s magnetic localization poster. Read More

May 3, 2013. The abstract “Fine tilt tuning of a laparoscopic camera by local magnetic actuation: Two-Port Laparoscopic Nephrectomy Experience on Human Cadavers” by R. Pickens, M. Simi, A. Menciassi, S. D. Herrell, P. Valdastri has been nominated in the Top 10 Abstract at the Engineering and Urology Society 2013 Meeting,… Read More

May 7, 2013. The paper “Wireless Tissue Palpation: Proof of Concept for a Single Degree of Freedom” by M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, M. E. Rentschler, P. Valdastri, was presented by P. Valdastri at IEEE ICRA 2013 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Read More