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Stanford Medical Innovation Conference Focuses on Robotics

By Frank Tobe | April 12, 2010

Changing roles for the surgeon; black boxes, automated scrub nurses – these and other ideas were presented at the Stanford Medical Innovation Conference on Medical Robotics Saturday, at Stanford University.

Presenters from business, research labs and venture capital firms.

Other medical information making the news:

Steadily improving medical software developed by IBM to help Mayo Clinic improve detection of aneurysms, Fortune Magazine.

Cellular carriers are jumping into the remote-healthcare marketplace where body parts make phone calls, BusinessWeek Magazine.

About The Author

Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.