News

STORM Lab is glad to announce a new partnership with Given Imaging Ltd, worldwide leader in wireless capsule endoscopy, for the study of enabling technologies for the next generation of gastrointestinal capsule endoscopes. Read More

April 10, 2013. The poster “Proof of Concept of Wireless Tissue Palpation in Abdominal Surgery” by Marco Beccani, Christian Di Natali, Mark Rentschler, Pietro Valdastri was presented at the ASME Design of Medical Devices 2013 conference in Minneapolis, MN. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

The Vanderbilt Hustler interviewed Pietro Valdastri about STORM Lab activities on swallowable robots. Read the article. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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… Read More

STORM Lab gets four abstract accepted to Digestive Disease Week 2013. Three posters and one oral presentation. Congratulations and see you in Orlando!!!!… Read More

STORM Lab welcomes Robert Caprara as new graduate student member. Welcome Robert!… Read More