Surgical robots Research Funding: NIH Grants

• 16NIH projects (fiscal year 2025)
• $6.1 millionawarded (fiscal year 2025)

Each number has its full source under its own list below.

1. 1Robot-assisted Catheter Placement With Novel Shape-sensing Stylet To Facilitate Adaptive Image Guided Pelvic BrachytherapyBrigham And Women's Hospital · fiscal year 2025$637,461
2. 2Effectiveness And Adoption Of A Smart Home-based Social Assistive Robot For Care Of Individuals With Alzheimer's DiseaseUniversity Of New Hampshire · fiscal year 2025$618,865
3. 3A Real-time Hyperspectral Laparoscopic Stereo Imaging System For Robot-assisted SurgeryUniversity Of Texas Dallas · fiscal year 2025$559,948
4. 4A New Ultrasound Probe And Robot For Prostate Biopsy And Focal TherapyJohns Hopkins University · fiscal year 2025$512,728
5. 5Demonstrating Feasibility Of Using A Robot To Deliver A Multicomponent Intervention To Reduce Delirium In Hospitalized Elderly Patients…Vigorous Mind, Inc. · fiscal year 2025$499,981
6. 6A New Robot To Replace Hysterectomies With Minimally Invasive Uterine-sparing InterventionsVanderbilt University · fiscal year 2025$497,464
7. 7A Multi-robot System For Semi-automated Image-guided Vertebral AugmentationJohns Hopkins University · fiscal year 2025$459,727
8. 8Self-locomotive Antimicrobial Micro-robot (slam) Enhancing Biofilm-infected Wound HealingUniversity Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign · fiscal year 2025$425,187
9. 9Extending Reach, Accuracy, And Therapeutic Capabilities: A Soft Robot For Peripheral Early-stage Lung CancerBoston University (charles River Campus) · fiscal year 2025$327,070
10. 10Robot-assisted Personalized Prostate BiopsyJohns Hopkins University · fiscal year 2025$317,327

Source: NIH RePORTER, NIH-funded projects and award amounts, fiscal year 2025. Retrieved 12 Nov 2026.

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