AMTL - Collaborators

CU - Boulder

CU - Anschutz Medical Campus

Vikas Patel, M.D. - Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Patel is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital. We are working together on a surgical navigation project and pain quantification project.

Jonathan Schoen, M.D. - Surgery

Dr. Schoen is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital. We are working together on mobile robotic systems for abdominal and gastrointestinal tract exploration, and embedded shape memory polymers in hernia patches.

Virginia Ferguson, Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering

Professor Ferguson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We are working together to study the tissue mechanics involved in sealing blood vessels.

Current Collaborators

Kurt Maute, Ph.D. - Aerospace Engineering

Professor Maute is the Joseph Negler Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We are working together to study micro-patterned tread design optimization.

Vanderbilt University

Pietro Valdastri, Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering

Professor Valdastri is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the STORM Lab at Vanderbilt University. We are working together to study wireless surgical palpation and hybrid robotic capsule colonoscopy approaches.