NSF grant accelerates development of medical capsule robots
by Brenda Ellis | Posted on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 — 3:16 PM
Four Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty members have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create new tools, including a web-based modeling and simulation infrastructure, intended to help speed up the development of miniature medical capsule robots.
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