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Faculty spinoff upgrades to new Innovation Campus building

January 8, 2019

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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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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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NUtech Ventures honors faculty innovators, industry partners

November 2, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

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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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