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Shane Farritor and Clayton Anderson

Former astronaut Anderson tests profs' surgery robot

May 25, 2017

Science & Technology

Dmitry Oleynikov, a UNMC professor of surgery, operates a surgical robot as in the background Shane Farritor, a UNL engineering professor, adjusts the camera on the surgical subject in June 2015. The two developed the robot for minimally invasive surgeries. Farritor and Oleynikov's startup company, Virtual Incision, announced March 1 the first use of its miniaturized robot in human surgery.

Virtual Incision mini-robots conduct first known human surgery

March 1, 2016

Science & Technology

Virtual Incision to locate at Nebraska Innovation Campus

January 15, 2016

Science & Technology

UNL, UNMC research duo honored for surgical robot

October 1, 2015

Shane Farritor of UNL (left) and Dmitry Oleynikov of UNMC.

UNL-UNMC spinoff company raises millions

August 7, 2015

UNL, UNMC receive $2.8M for robotic telesurgery research

February 10, 2015

UNMC, UNL receive $1.4M grant to continue work in robotic surgery

July 22, 2014

Shane Farritor (right), professor of mechanical engineering, has earned the Innovation, Development and Engagement Award for his collaboration with Dmitry Oleynkiv, a professor of surgery at UNMC.

IDEA honors robotics, surgery collaboration

May 1, 2014