News tagged with surgical tasks
Next generation surgical robots: Where's the doctor? (w/ Video)
As physician-guided robots routinely operate on patients at most major hospitals, the next generation robot could eliminate a surprising element from that scenario -- the doctor.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Tool-wielding robots crawl in bodies for surgery
Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.
May 29, 2012 |
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IAI’s military robot acts like barber in charity role
(PhysOrg.com) -- In robotics, three hands are better than one, in the form of a device that has been developed by Intelligent Automation Inc (IAI) for use as troop support. The Multi-Arm Unmanned Ground Vehicle ...
Mar 25, 2012 |
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Medical robotics experts help advance NASA's 'satellite surgery' project
(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Surgical skills with the click of a button
To the untrained eye, the spreadsheet sitting on Luke Humphris’ desk appears to be a mishmash of meaningless numbers.
Nov 07, 2011 |
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To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach
A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Tagging tumors with gold: Scientists use gold nanorods to flag brain tumors
"It's not brain surgery" is a phrase often uttered to dismiss a job's difficulty, but when the task actually is removing a brain tumor, even the slightest mistake could have serious health consequences. To ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Laundry duty getting you down? Robots to the rescue!
Folding a towel or a T-shirt is kind of a mindless, simple chore, unless you’re a robot. Then it’s still mindless, but not so simple.
Jun 30, 2011 |
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NSF leads interagency collaboration to develop advanced robotics
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with three other federal government agencies to support the administration's National Robotics Initiative (NRI) and released a solicitation for proposals ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Patent agency officials discuss how to reduce application backlog
“We have a backlog of a little over 700,000 patent applications.” That daunting figure was what David Kappos, the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, addressed in an April 13 talk to 250 medical technology ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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UCLA's first hand transplant patient adapting well to new hand
Six-and-a-half weeks after receiving the first hand transplant in the western United States, Emily Fennell is becoming so accustomed to her new right hand that she barely remembers when she didn't have one.
Apr 21, 2011 |
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