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Robots with moves more delicate than surgeon's
June 5, 2007 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/06/05/science/05science_graphic.html
Creepy-crawly robot to mend a broken heart
April 18, 2007
A device that sounds like a 21st-century version of a medicinal leech may soon be set loose inside the chests of heart patients. Resembling a robotic caterpillar, it will crawl across the surface of their beating heart, delivering treatment without the need for major surgery.
The device, called HeartLander, can be inserted using minimally invasive keyhole surgery. Once in place, it will attach itself to the heart and begin inching its way across the outside of the organ, injecting drugs or attaching medical devices.
To view the full article, click here http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426006.900
Junking the Joystick
Medical researchers have discovered that the best way to operate microscale devices is through intuitive controls.
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http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/junking/junking.html
Researcher heartens students
Education - A Mountain View High graduate urges schools to offer a lot more
DEE ANNE FINKEN THE OREGONIAN Friday, February 09, 2007
VANCOUVER -- Carol Reiley hunkers down in her lab at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. Last month, she began her studies for a doctorate in haptics technology research -- a discipline most people have never even heard of, much less can define.
"Haptics is like one of the five senses," said Reiley, a 2000 graduate of Vancouver's Mountain View High School.
Reiley is researching how to inject a human dimension -- or "sense" -- into the high-tech procedures surgeons use to make delicate cuts and sutures in difficult-to-reach areas of the body. She is devising complex tools that add sensory feedback to robotic surgery, allowing surgeons using robotic arms to "feel" what they are doing.
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Adding Feeling to Robot-Assisted Surgery
Robot-assisted surgery means patients experience less pain and scarring, reduced bleeding, and faster recovery times, but surgeons can't feel what they are doing the way they can when performing conventional surgery. To overcome this challenge a Johns Hopkins University research team is developing two approaches: one provides visual cues to the surgeon depending on how much force is used, while a second method involves design of force sensors that deliver direct tactile feedback to the surgeon.
To view the full article, go to http://www.nibib.nih.gov/HealthEdu/PubsFeatures/eAdvances/29Jan07
Other Media Reports
- Allison Okamura - Haptics lab
- NIH Publication: Adding Feeling to Robot-Assisted Surgery (January 29, 2007)
http://www.nibib.nih.gov/HealthEdu/PubsFeatures/eAdvances/29Jan07 - Forbes: Robo-docs (September 04, 2006)
http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0904/100.html - 2006 Science Spectrum Trailblazers: Ralph Etienne-Cummings (May 9, 2006)
http://www.sciencespectrumonline.com/artman/publish/article_82.shtml
ERC Leadership
- Russell Taylor - Webpage
- Gregory Hager - CIRL | Webpage
- Gabor Fichtinger - Webpage
- Allison Okamura - Haptics | Webpage
- Peter Kazanzides - Webpage
- Jerry Prince - Webpage
- Ralph Etienne-Cummings - Adaptive Microsystems Laboratory | Webpage
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