Christian starts his period abroad at the University of Melbourne

October 2014. STORM Lab’s graduate student Christian Di Natali started a period of research work on Local Magnetic Actuation at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr. Denny Oetomo.

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on October 7, 2014 in News

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The STORM is awarded a $1.5M NIH R01 Grant

September 2014. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the NIH awarded the proposal “A magnetic capsule endoscope for colonoscopy in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease” with a 4-year Bioengineering Research Partnerships R01 grant. We will now work to develop a robotic platform for magnetic soft-tethered colonoscopy that can be transitioned to human…

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on September 23, 2014 in News

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The STORM Lab at SMIT 2014

September 2014. Gabriel Scozzarro represented the STORM Lab the 26th International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT) in Shanghai, China. Gabriel was presenting the work “Ultra low-cost endoscopy for gastric cancer screening in low resource settings” by R. Caprara, C. Di Natali, M. Becanni, G. Scozzarro, D. Morgan, K. Obstein, P….

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on September 23, 2014 in News

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The STORM Lab at Eurosensors 2014

September 2014. Marco is presenting a poster about wireless tissue palpation at Eurosensors 2014 in Brescia, Italy.

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on September 10, 2014 in News

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Wireless insufflation paper featured on the cover page of Endoscopy

May 2014. The paper “Controlled colonic insufflation by a remotely-triggered capsule for improved mucosal visualization” by T. Pasricha, B. F. Smith, V. R. Mitchell, B. Fang, E. Brooks, J. Gerding, M. Washington, P. Valdastri, K. L. Obstein was featured on the cover page of the May 2014 issue of Endoscopy. Congratulations to the co-authors!!

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on August 27, 2014 in News

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STORM Lab second at the 2014 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition

August 2014. The work “Laparoscopic Retractor Based on Local Magnetic Actuation” by N. Garbin, C. Di Natali, J. Buzzi, E. De Momi, P. Valdastri and presented by Nicolò Garbin and Gabriel Scozzarro at the 2014 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition in Buffalo, NY won the second place. Congratulations to everybody!

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on August 25, 2014 in News

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New grad students starting in the STORM Lab

August 2014. The STORM Lab welcomes Piotr Slavinsky from University of Nebraska — Lincoln and Nicolò Garbin from Politecnico di Milano as new graduate students in Mechanical Engineering. We also welcome Addisu Taddese, moving his research primarily on medical robotics at the STORM Lab. We wish you all a great success in research. May your…

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on August 18, 2014 in News

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Moving to the new space

August 15, 2014 (Ferragosto). After three years of operations in 600 sqft, the STORM Lab moves to a larger space (1,100 sqft). Here a quick peek to the new lab right after moving day.

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on August 15, 2014 in News

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STORM Lab at ICRA 2014

June 2014. Charreau S. Bell presented at ICRA 2014 in Hong Kong the study “Six DOF Pose Estimation for Teleoperated Flexible Endoscopes Using Optical Flow: A Comparative Study” carried on in collaboration with Gianluca Mariottini’s group at University of Texas — Arlington.

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on August 7, 2014 in News

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Top 10 abstract at EUS 2014

May 2014. The abstract “Laparoscopic wireless palpation probe: Feasibility of simulated tumor detection in a human prostate” by C. Mitchell, M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, A. Benson, S. D. Herrell, P. Valdastri was selected in the Top 10 for the Engineering and Urology Society Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.

Posted by Pietro Valdastri on August 7, 2014 in News

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