Lab News

• May 2013
  TakkTile was featured on Science World Report, GizMag, Discovery News, and more!
• June 2012
  Congratulations to BioRobotics Lab member Laura Brattain, whose talk was voted second prize in the Audience Awards and selected for extended oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI 2012) on June 27, 2012 in Pisa, Italy.
• May 2012
  NEW! Fast, cheap, and easy:
  High performance tactile array sensor using off-the-shelf components.
  Open source design
• March 2012
  The Economist | Monitor:
  An open-source robo-surgeon
• January 2012
  The Economist:
  Surgical robots The kindness of strangers
• December 2011
  Rob Howe is named a 2012 Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in haptic interfaces and robotic manipulation
• September 2011
  The SDM hand was featured in the Harvard Crimson: Robots in Motion
• September 2011
  Paul Novotny's GPU instrument tracking paper was one of two runners up for the Young Investigator Publication Impact Award at MiCCAI 2011
• April 2011
  The SDM Hand won TreeHugger's Best of Green Award in Science & Technology for bio-inspired design

• March 2011
  Samuel Kesner's work on Robotic Catheters was selected for the University Research and Entrepreneurship Symposium (URES): (Mass High Tech, SEAS Website, Harvard Gazette)
• January 2011
  Biorobotics Lab alum Amy Kerdok '06 was featured in SEAS's Q&A with Amy Kerdok '06 (Ph.D.)

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