Cut-by-Color Surgery
What: Fluorescence-Assisted Resection and Exploration, a new technique that makes cancerous tissue glow during surgery, one cell at a time Where: Boston Why: Of the 1.5…
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What: An exoskeleton that dramatically speeds up recovery times from stroke Where: Santa Cruz, Calif. Why: An estimated 780,000 Americans will suffer a debilitating stroke…
View ArticleTwendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O
,"migrated":true}]]In the movies, entrusting human life to robot helpers and sophisticated machines inevitable ends in fire, destruction and death. But in reality, the automatons are actually saving...
View ArticlePsychiatry Via a Laser Beam To the Brain
,"migrated":true}]]This is not your typical light show. The neon light piping into the brain of a mouse with Parkinson's disease stops the animal's tremors instantly. Neuroscientist and psychiatrist...
View ArticleDivers Use Bar Codes on Tablet Computers to Visually Control Underwater Bots
First dolphins caught on. Now underwater robots are using iPads to communicate, thanks to a new system designed at York University in Toronto. As Technology Reviewreports,…
View ArticleRise of the Helpful Machines
The world's most sophisticated robots don't assemble trucks or cruise around Mars. They're designed to support our surging population of elderly and disabled citizens. Meet 10 of the most promising...
View ArticleVideo: Using New Learning Algorithm, Archer 'Bot Learns How To Aim and Shoot...
Using a learning algorithm, Italian researchers taught a child-like humanoid robot archery, even outfitting it with a spectacular headdress to celebrate its new skill. Petar…
View ArticleRough Sketch: "I Build Flying Robots"
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the “moment of inertia”—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our…
View ArticleMonorail-Riding Robots Could Continually Rearrange Solar Panels to Follow the...
Fleets of battery-powered robots could zip along monorails installed in solar arrays, tweaking individual panels’ angles so they follow the sun across the sky. This could be…
View Article'MacGyver' Robot Could Make Use Of Objects It Finds
,"migrated":true}]]Give a modern robot a specific job to do and it will do it pretty well, whether it's scooping dog waste, fetching food for humans, or searching a dangerous…
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