Wireless Palpation featured on IEEE Spectrum

January 22, 2014. Wireless Tissue Palpation as described by Emily Waltz has been featured on IEEE Spectrum, the main magazine of IEEE. Here a link to the Spectrum webpage.... KEEP READING

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The STORM Lab at the White House Smart America Challenge

The STORM Lab research team will be presenting a proposal at the White House Smart America Challenge on Dec 12th to create an open testbed for research in miniature capsule robots (MCR) for medical applications. An MCR is a biocompatible Cyber-Physical System (CPS) designed to operate in the human body to accomplish diagnostic or therapeutic...... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab featured on Vanderbilt Magazine

The STORM Lab research on advanced and painless colonoscopy has been featured on the Vanderbilt Magazine. Read the article here.... KEEP READING

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Brennan Steele awarded for Best Presentation

December 3, 2013. Brennan Steele — a high school student from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt — received the Best Presentation Award for his research performed in the STORM Lab. Brennan worked with Charreau S. Bell and Ketih L. Obstein on a tablet app to improve the process of learning colonoscopy for...... KEEP READING

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Welcome Eka!

December 2, 2013. The STROM Lab welcomes Ekawayhu (Eka) Susilo. Eka completed his PhD with Pietro at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, working on miniature capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and robotic surgery. Eka will be Post-Doc in the STORM Lab.... KEEP READING

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Wireless Tissue Palpation featured on the WEB

Wireless Tissue Palpation as described by David Salisbury gets featured in many websites around the globe: NSF, MedGadget, Vanderbilt School of Engineering, QuickVU, Medical Design Technology Magazine, Medical Xpress, Newswise, YouTube and many more…... KEEP READING

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Wireless Tissue Palpation awarded at the World Congress of Endourology

October 2013. The study “Laparoscopic Wireless Palpation Device: Preliminary Assessment of Simulated Tumor Detection in an Elastic Modulus” by A. Benson, M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, R. Pickens, P. Valdastri, S. D. Herrell receives the OLYMPUS Best Laparoscopy/Robotic Paper Award at the 31st World Congress of Endourology in New Orleans, LA [ Award Certificate ].... KEEP READING

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Seminar at University of Nebraska

October 29, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at the University of Nebraska, within the Pierson Graduate Seminar Series.... KEEP READING

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Seminar at University of Texas – Arlington

October 25, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at the University of Texas – Arlington, within the Colloquium Speaker Series.... KEEP READING

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Massimiliano Simi receives an Award for his PhD Thesis

October 2013. Massimiliano Simi receives the Best PhD dissertation in Biomedical Engineering by the Italian Society of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations Massi!!!!... KEEP READING

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STORM Lab at the NSF CPS PI Meeting

October 17-18, 2013. The first year results of the NSF-CPS Project “CPS-Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices” were presented at the Fourth Annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators meeting in Arlington, VA. Here you can download the poster that has been presented.... KEEP READING

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NSF I-Corps Award featured on CTTC MUSE

September 20, 2013. The official blog of the Vanderbilt University Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization featured the NSF I-Corps grant awarded to PI Valdastri and EndoInSight, a Vanderbilt startup founded by Byron Smith. Follow the link for the press release and a video interview to the team.... KEEP READING

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Seminar at GeorgiaTech

September 4, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at GeorgiaTech, within the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Seminar Series.... KEEP READING

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BROAD Foundation grant to develop safer colonoscopy

Aug 8, 2013. The proposal “Development and pre-clinical validation of a soft-tethered endoscopic robot to replace colonoscopy” has been approved for funding by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation within the Broad Medical Research Program. The project will start on October 1st, 2013 and will last one year.... KEEP READING

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Brennan Steele won First Place at the Student Research Symposium organized by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach

July 12, 2013. Brennan Steele presented the poster “Tablet Technology to Improve Colonoscopy” by B. A. Steele, C. S. Bell, K. L. Obstein, P. Valdastri at the Student Research Symposium organized at Vanderbilt University by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach. The organizing committee selected Brennan’s poster out of a total of 52 posters for...... KEEP READING

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