StormLab’s HydroJet on BBC News

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Best Student Paper Awarded to Nicolo’ Garbin

Congratulations to Nicolò Garbin for the Best Student Paper Award at the International Symposium on Medical Robotics! And congratulations to all the co-authors of the study!... KEEP READING

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Dr. Keith Obstein talks about the recent discoveries at the STORM LAB

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First-ever Autonomously Controlled “Capsule Robot” Explores Colon – DDW 2017

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STORM Lab at Vanderbilt’s Undergraduate Research Fair 2017

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The STORM Lab at DDW 2017

Chicago, IL (May 7-9, 2017)—Members of the STORM lab attended Digestive Disease Week 2017, the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. During the conference, our team gave two poster presentations. Nicolò Garbin and Dennis C. Sohn presented the abstract: “Evaluation of a Novel...... KEEP READING

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Federico Campisano presents our paper at Eurosensor 2016

STORM Lab PhD student, Federico Campisano, presented our paper: Federico Campisano, Francesco Gramuglia, Imro Dawson, Sarthak Misra, Elena De Momi, Keith Obstein, Pietro Valdastri, “Water Jet Actuation for Ultra-Low Cost Endoscopy: Characterization of Miniature Nozzles Fabricated by Rapid Prototyping” at the 2016 Eurosensor conference in Budapest, Hungary.  ... KEEP READING

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Dr. Pietro Valdastri and Federico Campisano awarded with Best Application Prize and Overall Winner at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016

June 2016. The STORM Lab HydroJet Team, including  won the Best Overall Award and the Best Application Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016 organized for the Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics at the Imperial College in London. Our low cost platform for gastric cancer screening in low income countries was evaluated by a jury...... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at RSS 2016

STORM Lab PhD student, Addisu Taddese, presented our paper: Addisu Z. Taddese, Piotr R. Slawinski, Keith L. Obstein, Pietro Valdastri, Closed Loop Control of a Tethered Magnetic Capsule Endoscope, at the 2016 Robotics: Science and Systems conference in Ann Arbor, MI... KEEP READING

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Our design environment for capsule robots was presented at the Robot Makers workshop

Our collaborator, Hakan Tunc from the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, presented our project on a design environment for medical capsule robots at the Robot Makers (RoMa) workshop at the 2016 Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) conference in Ann Arbor, MI.    ... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at ICRA 2016

Ph.D. students Nicolo Garbin and Piotr Slawinski, along with Dr. Valdastri, traveled to the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Stockholm, Sweden (May 16-21, 2016) to present their paper: N. Garbin, P. Slawinski, G. Aiello, C. Karraz, P. Valdastri, “Laparoscopic Camera based on an Orthogonal Magnet Arrangement”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2016, Vol....... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at DDW 2016

May 21-24, 2016. The abstract “Evaluation of a Novel Magnetic Actuated Capsule Endoscope for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Preliminary Feasibility Study” by Addisu Z. Taddese, Piotr R. Slawinski, Kyle B. Musto, Pietro Valdastri, Keith L. Obstein was presented at a poster session at the Digestive Disease Week 2016 in San Diego, California.    ... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab research featured by WIRED Magazine

May 26, 2016. STORM Lab research on magnetic and painless colonoscopy has been featured by WIRED Magazine. Read the article here.... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab research featured by NSF Science360’s Super Science Show

December 2015. In NSF Science360’s Super Science Show, Charlie and Jordan explore Vanderbilt’s new open-source medical capsule robots’ hardware and software. Researchers around the globe who want to customize medical capsule robots won’t have to start from scratch anymore. Here the link to the coolest description ever of what we are doing at the STORM...... KEEP READING

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The HydroJet featured by VUCast for low-cost gastric cancer screening in low-income countries

The HydroJet platform — designed to provide an ultra-low-cost option for gastric cancer screening in rural areas of low-income countries — has been featured in a clip by VUCast. VUCast Vanderbilt in Central America... KEEP READING

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