Surgical Mechatronics Lab in the news

Honors

• Best Paper, 28th World Congress on Endourology and Shock Wave Lithotripsy, Chicago, 2010.
  T. Ota, N. A. Patronik, C. N. Riviere, and M. A. Zenati, "Epicardial injection using a miniature crawling robotic device through a subxiphoid approach."

• Best e-Poster on Surgical Applications, Annual Conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, 2010.
  Brian Becker, Robert MacLachlan, Louis Lobes, and Cameron Riviere, "Semiautomated intraocular laser surgery using handheld instruments."

• Best Mini Presentation, Annual Scientific Meeting, International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS), Rome, 2007.
  T. Ota, N. A. Patronik, C. N. Riviere, and M. A. Zenati, "Epicardial injection using a miniature crawling robotic device through a subxiphoid approach."

• First Place, Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award, 32nd IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, 2006.
  F. Razjouyan, N. A. Patronik, M. A. Zenati, and C. N. Riviere, "Enhancing the locomotion of an in vivo robot for cardiac surgery."

• First Place, Student Design Competition, 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005.
  D. Y. Choi and C. N. Riviere, "Flexure-based manipulator for active handheld microsurgical instrument."

• Second Place, Student Presentation Award, 30th IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, 2004.
  N. A. Patronik, M. A. Zenati, and C. N. Riviere, "Development of a robotic crawler for minimally invasive cardiac therapies."

• Finalist, Whitaker Foundation Student Paper Competition, 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001.
  L. Hotraphinyo and C. N. Riviere, "Precision measurement for microsurgical instrument evaluation." 

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