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A new paper from the Otolaryngology Department at Vall d’Hebron Hospital has just been published in Frontiers in Oncology on patient-specific 3D planning for surgical planning in parapharyngeal space lesions. Congratulations to David Virós and his team for this excellent work, which continues a line initiated at Can Ruti exploring transoral robotic access to theContinue reading “Patient-specific 3D planning for parapharyngeal surgery”

I was in an operating room in Hong Kong for the first time ten years ago, in August 2016, at Queen Mary Hospital. What, or rather, who, brought me there was Raymond Tsang. Of course, robotics was the motivation, and there were two particular areas in which he was involved. The first was the earlyContinue reading “Robotic surgical access to the nasopharynx”

Levita Magnetics’ MARS® (Magnetic-Assisted Robotic Surgery) platform was already an interesting example of robotic assistance. It combines Dynamic Magnetic Positioning for internal tissue retraction with a surgeon-controlled robotic arm for the laparoscopic camera, reducing the need for a dedicated camera assistant. The concept is now evolving further. In 2025, Levita demonstrated an AI-guided autonomous surgicalContinue reading “A further step in robotic surgical assistance: Magnetic-Assisted Robotic Surgery (MARS), AI-guided autonomous surgical camera and Augmented Reality (AR).”

Vascular anastomosis is a logical target for autonomous surgery: a clearly defined task involving relatively geometric structures, with measurable steps and outcomes. It may offer a more manageable entry point for autonomy than the broader challenges of robotic soft-tissue surgery. So Aleph is taking a different approach. Rather than developing another teleoperated microsurgical robot, itContinue reading “Aleph: another microsurgery robot? What’s new?”

El 30 de septiembre termina el plazo para enviar comunicaciones al III Congreso de la Fundación Española para el Tratamiento de los Tumores de Cabeza y Cuello (FETTCC). Esta edición nos llevará al Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre de Madrid, uno de los grandes referentes de la sanidad pública española, en unas instalaciones completamente nuevasContinue reading “¡¡Ultima llamada!!”

A comment on my post about SpeedPAL reminded me of a system I actually encountered in Seoul back in 2017: the SOLOASSIST II, during my visit to the IRSS at Yonsei University. AKTORmed has now built a substantial clinical presence around its robotic camera-holder platform, with more than 800 systems reported in use. And yes,Continue reading “SoloAssist. Robotic camera control.”

El tratamiento biológico de la rinosinusitis crónica con poliposis nasal (RSCcPN) continúa evolucionando. A los tres primeros tratamientos incorporados (dupilumab, omalizumab y mepolizumab) se suman ahora nuevas alternativas: A ello se añade la llegada de biosimilares de omalizumab, como Omlyclo®, que amplían las alternativas disponibles dentro de esta clase terapéutica. Más mecanismos de acción, diferentesContinue reading “Nuevas opciones en el tratamiento biológico de la rinosinusitis crónica”

The origin of the word “robot” Where does the word robot come from? The story begins in Prague, in the early 1920s, with the Czech writer, playwright and critic Karel Čapek (1890–1938) and his play R.U.R. (Rossumovi univerzální roboti). The word robot appeared in the first English translation (see bellow). Although Čapek did not originallyContinue reading “Rossum’s Universal Robots”

The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) by ShanghaiRanking is one of the major international rankings assessing academic and research performance across specific disciplines. In its 2026 Clinical Medicine ranking, Universidad Europea de Madrid has been included for the first time, placing it among the 10 Spanish universities classified and the top 500 worldwide inContinue reading “Medicine at the European University of Madrid enters the ShanghaiRanking”

Saroa is a Japanese three-arm surgical robotic system by Riverfield Inc, distinguished by its pneumatically driven architecture for physical force feedback, designed to restore one of the senses largely lost in conventional robotic surgery: the perception of tissue resistance. Saroa received Japanese manufacturing and marketing approval in May 2023, after two decades of development atContinue reading “Saroa: pneumatic force feedback, a Japanese solution”