CIS news

• MAKO Surgical getting sued for underperforming in 2012Q1
• Stereotaxis is doing fine in the mean while
• Mazor sold two Renaissance systems
• First US procedure with Mazor's Spine Assisst
• New 2.3% medical device tax coming from 2013 in the US
• Titan got it's nice gadget: the single port Columbia robot (video, paper) 
• First procedure with the NeuroMate in Peru
• Intuitive's Q1 results shoots the stock prices to record heights
• MScore, MIMIC's new scoring system for the dV trainer. 
• Robot-assisted surgery now favored treatment for kidney cancer
• New lawsuit against Intuitive: "it used "intimidation" to "force" hospitals to opt for robot-assisted surgery over safer options" 
• QUAN is looking to forge a new investment group to enter the arena of surgical robotics
• Exelcius surgical is willing to develop for 3D-guided spine and brain surgery (developed originally at Dignity Health's Barrow Neurological Institute)
• For more robotic surgery videos, check the complete Youtube topic
• Video of the telerobotics NLI cutting experiment  
• An old article about neuroArm

• A nice introduction to IMRIS' 3-room suit (AMIGO)
• Meet SurgicEye, the intra-operative SPECT
• Introduction to Electa's radiosurgery system (they also have an Axesse system)

• Combine surgical robotics, teleoperation and satellite servicing: postdoc position available at JHU
• PhD opening in robotics at the Institute for Medical Science and Technology; University of Dundee

• Call for papers for the jubilee 20th MMVR
• BioRob Workshop on Laryngeal Microsurgery

Quote of the week: "Da vinci is a 21^st century device, doing 19^th century type surgery, based on the 20^th century MIS paradigm." 
/Russell H. Taylor/

 Image credit: IMRIS