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Seminar at Stanford

April 10, 2015. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Lifesaving Capsule Robots” at Stanford, within the ME/CS 571: Surgical Robotics Seminar series chaired by Federico Barbagli, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, Director of Systems Engineering at Intuitive Surgical Inc., and former Chief Technology Officer at Hansen Medical, and Allison Okamura, Associate…

Posted by on May 21, 2015 in News


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Seminar at University of Pennsylvania

March 27, 2015. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Lifesaving Capsule Robots” at the University of Pennsylvania, within the Seminar Series of Penn Engineering/PRECISE Center.

Posted by on May 21, 2015 in News


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The STORM Lab welcomes the launch of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research

Medical robotics has been progressively revolutionizing treatment for at least the past two decades. The Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR) invites fundamental contributions to all areas of medical robotics including clinical evaluation studies. The journal is primarily aimed towards bringing the scientific and technological developments as well as clinical evaluation studies in the area…

Posted by on March 5, 2015 in News


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Work on Local Magnetic Actuation featured by MedGadget, NSF, and Research@Vanderbilt

March 2015. The recent work published in the ASME Journal of Medical Devices and the IEEE Transactions on Robotics about local magnetic actuation for laparoscopic instrumentation has been featured by MedGadet, the National Science Foundation, NSF Science Now, and ResearchNews@Vanderbilt.

Posted by on March 5, 2015 in News


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Capsule Robot paper accepted for IEEE ICRA 2015

January 2015. The paper “Toward Rapid Prototyping of Miniature Capsule Robots” by Addisu Taddese, Marco Beccani, Eka Susilo, Peter Volgyesi, Akos Ledeczi, and Pietro Valdastri has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2015!

Posted by on February 1, 2015 in News


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NSF CAREER Award to study Lifesaving Capsule Robots

February 2015. The National Science Foundation awarded Pietro Valdastri with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant. The title of the proposal is “CAREER: Lifesaving Capsule Robots”. The goal of this research is to characterize fundamental principles at the intersection of robotics, magnetism, and control which will enable intelligent capsule robots to amplify the diagnostic…

Posted by on February 1, 2015 in News


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Medical Capsule Robots in the 10 cool inventions from Vanderbilt in 2014

January 2015. The modular toolkit for capsule robot design has been mentioned as one of the ten cool technologies in the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC) at Vanderbilt. Watch all the ten innovations here.

Posted by on January 31, 2015 in News


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New NSF I-Corps grant for the STORM Lab

December 15, 2014. The STORM Lab has been awarded with a new I-Corps grant by the National Science Foundation. This grant — I-Corps: A modular toolkit for rapid prototyping of capsule robots — will help us investigating the translational potential for the capsule robot design toolkit that we are developing. Further information are provided in…

Posted by on December 29, 2014 in News


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The STORM Lab at the 2014 NSF CPS PI Meeting

November 6-7, 2014. Our project “CPS: Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices” — supported by NSF within the Cyber-Physical Systems program, was selected for a plenary lecture at the 2014 NSF-CPS Principal Investigator meeting, held in Arlington VA. You can read more about the research here. Picture courtesy of Dr. Majewicz,…

Posted by on November 9, 2014 in News


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Best Poster Award at ACM SenSys 2014

November 5, 2014. Addisu Taddese received the Best Poster Award at the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2014) for presenting the work “A Modular Architecture for Miniature Capsule Robots Based on TinyOS” by Addisu Taddese, Marco Becanni, Ekawahyu Susilo, Péter Völgyesi, Ákos Lédeczi and Pietro Valdastri. This work was supported by…

Posted by on November 9, 2014 in News