Tag: Medical robotics

Aktualności17 października 2026

Wandercraft buys Ekso Bionics, merging two exoskeleton pioneers

Wandercraft has bought Ekso Bionics, putting four medical exoskeletons under one roof — two clinical, two personal. No price was disclosed, but the prize is access to 700 centres and to reimbursement.

Aktualności15 września 2026

da Vinci 5 Gains Force Feedback in Europe, Sampled 1,000 Times a Second

Intuitive is reported to have secured CE marking for force feedback instruments on da Vinci 5. Sensors sample force a thousand times per second, with a Force Gauge showing it to the surgeon. The maker's newsroom does not corroborate it.

Aktualności11 września 2026

Aletta, an Autonomous Blood-Draw Robot, Clears the FDA

Dutch company Vitestro received FDA De Novo authorization for Aletta. First-stick success was 94.5% across a trial of more than 1,600 patients.

Aktualności10 września 2026

Cyborg Cockroaches Deliver Drugs. 72% Success on the Full Task

Researchers from the University of Queensland and UNSW described giant burrowing cockroaches carrying a remotely triggered injector in Advanced Science. The insect is meant to reach casualties where neither rescuers nor robots can go.

Aktualności16 sierpnia 2026

NTU's 4.4 mm Soft Surgical Robot Performs Five Functions

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University built a soft 4.4 mm robot, steered wirelessly by a magnetic field, that performs five surgical functions. Tested in vitro only so far.

Aktualności31 lipca 2026

NVIDIA opens GPU-native medical physics simulation for surgical robots

NVIDIA has released an open-source medical physics simulation framework that runs entirely on the GPU, part of Isaac for Healthcare. It targets the data gap slowing surgical robots — because medicine can't collect data at internet scale.

Aktualności29 lipca 2026

UNSW's soft robotic heart — a testbed for cardiac devices

Engineers at UNSW Sydney built a soft robotic heart of silicone and hydraulic "muscles" that reproduces cardiac disease and lets researchers test catheters and devices without animal testing.