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Recent News

04/28/2021

Bryn successfully defends his thesis entitled "Enabling Technologies for Image-Guided Interventions with Minimally Invasive Surgical Robots." Congratulations, Dr. Pitt!

04/05/2021

Accuracy of Touch-Based Registration During Robotic Image-Guided Partial Nephrectomy Before and After Tumor Resection in Validated Phantoms (Kavoussi et al.), was featured as the cover article in Journal of Endourology Volume 35, Number 3, published March 2021. The research proposes a touch-based registration system to intraoperatively update a 3D kidney model with subsurface features, making image guidance feasible during robotic partial nephrectomy.

02/01/2021

Our introductory robotics course was a smashing success this year! Eleven girls at Harpeth Hall, a local high school, learned the basics of robotics and programming using the MED Lab's custom made, open source pen drawing robot platform. The HarpBot, while capable of drawing the image below, was programmed by the girls to beat you in Hangman, the classic chalkboard word guessing game.

02/01/2021

Dr. Webster is among the top 2 percent of 7 million working scientists in the world based on a recent study from Stanford University.

01/01/2021

Kyle Leleux joined the MEDLab at the start of the new year. He is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Welcome, Kyle! We look forward to all the cool research you will be doing!

11/05/2020

Two patents have been awarded for MED Lab inventions. The first patent is for a snare tool manipulator system, and the second patent is for a bronchoscopic continuum robot system for transoral lung access. Congratulations to the inventors!

10/23/2020

EndoTheia, Inc., a startup company from the MED Lab, has begun formal operations and moved into a new office space near downtown Nashville! Equipped with new laser cutters and 3D printers, they are ready to start commercializing steerable sheaths for flexible endoscopy.

10/05/2020

Congratulations to graduate student Tayfun Efe Ertop and team for being selected as a Best Student Paper Finalist at the 2020 Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference! Tayfun's paper is titled "Steerable Needle Trajectory Following in the Lung: Torsional Deadband Compensation and Full Pose Estimation with 5DOF Feedback for Needles Passing Through Flexible Endoscopes." He presented his work virtually and was chosen as a finalist from approximately 200 other papers!

09/30/2020

Virtuoso Surgical, a startup company from the MED Lab, where many former lab members work, has raised $1.5 Million over the past few months (and counting!) through a Regulation A+ offering of shares to the general public. The funding will support the company’s ongoing work to bring concentric tube robots to operating rooms around the world!

08/24/2020

Dr. Webster started his 3rd year of teaching the class "Innovation Realization: From Academic Insight to Entrepreneurial Impact." The class combines teams of engineering Ph.D. students, law students, and MBA students to work on developing research ideas into products with a business plan!

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