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  • Vanderbilt University

    National Robotics Initiative grant will provide surgical robots with a new level of machine intelligence

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 28, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Adams uses sound waves for bomb detection

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 24, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    New device stores electricity on silicon chips

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 23, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Goldfarb named to ‘Popular Mechanics’ top 10 innovators list

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 22, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    New technique tracks breast cancer subtypes, treatment effectiveness

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 21, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mahadevan-Jansen elected a director of international optics society

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 18, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch during minimally invasive surgeries

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 17, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    45th anniversary recognizes one of earliest U.S. biomedical engineering programs

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 14, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Miga joins editorial board of new medical imaging journal

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 13, 2013

  • A conversation with community entrepreneurs

    A conversation with community entrepreneurs

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 11, 2013