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Autonomous Medical Robot Successfully Steers Needles Through Living Tissue
A team of researchers and physicians led by Professor Ron Alterovitz has demonstrated, for the first time, a robotic needle capable of autonomously maneuvering through intricate lung tissue while avoiding obstacles and important lung structures.
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Stanley receives $219k NIH grant to analyze relationship between stimulations and responses in immune cells
Assistant Professor Natalie Stanley received an NIH grant worth $219,366 to develop new, fully automated bioinformatics techniques to identify and characterize clinically predictive intracellular signal responses elicited through ex vivo stimulation.

UNC CS shares research, builds connections at WISC 2023
Researchers from UNC Computer Science took part in the 2023 Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop in Bochum, Germany, sharing knowledge via a keynote lecture and building professional connections with women from 11 other countries.

Breaking cross-modal boundaries in multimodal AI: Introducing CoDi, composable diffusion for any-to-any generation
In a recent paper: “Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion,” Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service Research and UNC NLP present CoDi, a novel generative model capable of processing and simultaneously generating content across multiple modalities.

UNC CS shares cutting-edge computer vision research at CVPR 2023
UNC Computer Science research groups led by Mohit Bansal, Gedas Bertasius, and Marc Niethammer presented several papers and contributed to workshops at CVPR 2023. Here is a roundup of their papers, which used deep learning to tackle computer vision tasks.
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Autonomous Medical Robot Successfully Steers Needles Through Living Tissue
September 20, 2023
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