CIS news

A quick survey on what is going on in our beloved field: 

• KidsArm: MDA is planning to develop a pediatric MIS robot
  
• $4.7 M secured by FedDev Ontario and CFI
• a project of the Centre for Image-Guided Innovation and Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) at SickKids Hospital in Toronto
• IMRIS and MDA announced a special IGS joint program, to support the development of the neuroArm robot 
• "Is Hansen Medical a Takeover Target?"
• Hansen is running on Intuitives patent portfolio, under Fred Moll's directorship (also founder of Intuitive)
• A nice set of article reviews on different surgical deployment of the da Vinci
• That was found on a French blog, mostly containing references to older materials
• 12 advances in medical robotics (Informationweek HealthCare)
• Weird stuff: "Equipe your surgical robot with a smelly armpit" 

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• New mobile X-ray from Streamcare
• New US guideance technique from Ultrasonix
• Job opportunity for medical robotists at SRI, Menlo Park
• PhD scolarships in medical robotics at Polimi
• Research Assistant in the Medical Engineering Group - Imperial College London
• Tenure-track Mech-e faculty  position in interdisciplinary robotics at Hopkins
• Post-doc position on MR-guided robot development at Hopkins