The NSF-funded design environment for medical capsule robots goes open-source and is featured by IEEE Spectrum

November 2015. The open source design environment for the rapid prototyping of medical capsule robots is officially launched. Read more here. IEEE Spectrum, the main magazine of IEEE, features our design environment in this report by Emily Waltz.... KEEP READING

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Gregorio successfully defended his Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. Congratulations Gregorio!!!

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Engineering Ambassadors Network kick-off meeting Fri Sep 18, 5pm, FGH138

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STORM Lab educational robotic toolkit wins $10,000 competition

The STORM Lab educational robotic toolkit has been selected as one of the three winners of the Silicon Labs and Digi-Key Your IoT contest. Eka Susilo will now receive $10,000 in Silicon Labs Components supplied through Digi-Key to expand the robotic toolkit and bring it to local high schools.... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab educational robotic toolkit featured by Vanderbilt press

The educational robotic toolkit developed at the STORM Lab has been featured by Vanderbilt press. The modular design for tiny robots – snap-together, removable magnetic plates that include motorized wheels, an accelerometer, a barometer and other functions, depending on what the user wants to do – is an affordable teaching tool for most public schools....... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab research in robotic colonoscopy fetured by WHYY-FM

July 23, 2015. Todd Bookman from the WHYY-FM The Pulse radio show interviews Pietro Valdastri about the future of capsule colonoscopy. Here you can read the full story and listen to the radio interview.... KEEP READING

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Yasmin Alvarado-Rayo presented her research at the 2015 SSMV Symposium

July 10, 2015. Yasmin Alvarado-Rayo presented her reasearch on the SMAC educational toolkit. Togheter with Vanderbilt undergraduate student Ashley Peck and Dr. Eka Susilo, Yasmin developed an App for controlling the SMAC robots with a smartphone via Bluetooth connection. Yasmin is enrolled in the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt program. Congratulations to Yasmin...... KEEP READING

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High school teachers help introducing the SMAC educational toolkit into the classroom

Summer 2015. Two high school science teachers, Mark Gonyea and Justin Monetenegro, joined the STORM Lab to foster the adoption of the SMAC educational toolkit in science curricula. Mark and Justin are helping the STORM Lab members in simplifying the design of the modular robotic toolkit for education, designing experiments that can engage high school...... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at ICRA 2015

May 27-29, 2015. The papers “Toward Rapid Prototyping of Miniature Capsule Robots” by A. Taddese, M. Beccani, E. Susilo, P. Volgyesi, A. Ledeczi, P. Valdastri and “Design and Implementation of an Instrumented Cane for Gait Recognition” by J. Wade, M. Beccani, A. Myszka, E. T. Bekele, P. Valdastri, P. Flemming, T. Withrow, N. Sarkar were...... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at DDW 2015

May 2015. The paper “Evaluation of a novel tablet application for improvement in colonoscopy training and polyp identification” by C. J. Laborde, C. S. Bell, C. Slaughter, P. Valdastri, K. L. Obstein was presented at Digestive Disease Week 2015 in Washington, DC.... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Science V

May 14, 2015. Pietro Valdastri gave the talk “Robotic Image Guided Endoscopy” at Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Science V in Nashville, TN.... KEEP READING

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Federico successfully defended his Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. Congratulations Federico!!!

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Seminar at Politecnico of Milano

April 28, 2015. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Lifesaving Capsule Robots” at the Polytecnic of Milan, within the Seminar Series of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at DMD 2015

April 14, 2015. Christian Di Natali represented the STORM Lab at the 2015 edition of the ASME Design of Medical Devices conference in Minneapolis, MN. Christian presented two collaborative works carried on with the University of Melbourne. These works are C. Di Natali, A. Mohammadi, D. Oetomo, P. Valdastri, “Surgical Robotic Manipulator Based on Local...... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab featured by Vanderbilt CTTC

April 2015. The monthly magazine Driving Innovation Forward by the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization is featuring this month Pietro Valdastri and the research he is doing at the STORM Lab.... KEEP READING

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