CIS news

• SILS robot designed for space surgery by University of Nebraska team
• Mini robots to fly in space from Virtual Incision Co., NE. The company first received 500K funding, then $2m investment. Read more about their project.
• Robots to travel deeper to check and treat your innards
• The ARTRAS hair restoration system is in beta test phase
• Hansen's Magellan in action
• NeuroMate installed at University Hospital in Cologne

• The new da Vinci Xi rings in at $1.85M; the dual-console version for $2.3M
• Shares of Intuitive Jumped of course. 
• Yet,hospitals recently bought a prior version of da Vinci feel disappointed
• Some da Vinci cannule tools were recalled 

• Advantages, potential of computer-guided spinal surgery 
• CFP: Special issue of Robotics and Biomimetics (SpringerOpen) on Medical Robots (deadline: June 30.)
• Deerfield Invests $27.5mm In OMNIlife science, Inc., maker of orthopaedic navigation solution
• Rehabilitation robot market will worth $1.8 billion by 2020
• Xenex Disinfection Robot in use in AK

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Image credit: Virtual Incision Co.