Seminar at the Modular Surgical Robotics PhD Course, Politecnico di Milano

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.... KEEP READING

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Wireless Tissue Palpation presented at TRANSDUCERS 2013

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.... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab at DDW 2013

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.... KEEP READING

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Top 10 Abstract at the Engineering and Urology Society 2013 Meeting

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, in Sand Diego, CA.... KEEP READING

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Wireless Tissue Palpation presented at IEEE ICRA 2013

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.... KEEP READING

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Partnership with Given Imaging Ltd

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.... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab Poster at DMD 2013

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.... KEEP READING

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Invited talk at DMD 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.... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab at the First Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Education

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.... KEEP READING

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STORM capsule robots featured by the Vanderbilt Hustler

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

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STORM Lab at the Sixth Image-Guided Therapy workshop

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.... KEEP READING

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The other side of collaborative research

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!... KEEP READING

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First in vivo trial for Wireless Tissue Palpation

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...... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab at DDW 2013

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

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New Lab Member

STORM Lab welcomes Robert Caprara as new graduate student member. Welcome Robert!... KEEP READING

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