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Shane Farritor

Faculty spinoff upgrades to new Innovation Campus building

January 8, 2019

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Faculty 101 podcast explores Farritor's robotics research

August 10, 2018

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Society & Culture

NU among world’s top 100 for U.S. patents

July 13, 2018

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University of Nebraska spinoff company receives major investment

December 18, 2017

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Nebraska researcher Shane Farritor carved this delicious looking bird (which is actually a chicken) using a robotic surgery device created through a partnership with a colleague at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Nebraska experts dish up a feast of knowledge

November 21, 2017

Shane Farritor and Clayton Anderson

Former astronaut Anderson tests profs' surgery robot

May 25, 2017

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Sally Mackenzie

NU system among nation's best in tech transfer

May 12, 2017

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Nebraska Innovation Campus

Nebraska makerspace workshop is April 17-18

April 3, 2017

Shane Farritor has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is pictured here with a prototype of one of his advanced miniaturized robots that shows promise for colon resection, a procedure used to treat diverticulitis, large colon polyps, precancerous and cancerous lesions of the colon and inflammatory bowel disease.

National Academy of Inventors honors Farritor

December 13, 2016

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Shane Farritor, Lederer Professor of Engineering, will speak at the TEDxLincoln Salon event on July 19 and the main event on Sept. 23.

3 from UNL to speak at 2016 TEDxLincoln

June 30, 2016

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

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Virtual Incision to locate at Nebraska Innovation Campus

January 15, 2016

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