‘Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday claimed to have performed the country’s first robotic surgery for prostate cancer.
“The robotic surgery was performed on a 62-year-old man,” Dr A K Hemal, professor, Department of Urology at AIIMS, who carried out the surgical procedure, told media persons in Delhi.
“It took two hours […]
‘Researchers from Ottawa based Frontline Robotics claim to have created robots which work as a team with an elected leader making the best decisions for the group.
As per the study, the robots have been developed to enable them to work in groups or packs using distributed intelligence, with their actions in co-ordination to the response […]
‘Famous for its 500-mile motor race, Indianapolis saw a different kind of motorized competition over the weekend — the Droidyard 500, which pits R2 droid units against one another.
Held at the Star Wars Celebration III convention at the Indiana Convention Center, the race was organized by members of the R2-D2 Builders Club.
Held on the convention […]
‘A robotic arm that can be worn at home is being developed to help stroke survivors regain the ability to reach and grasp objects and perform basic tasks such as feed themselves.
The device, built by a research team, led by biomedical engineer Jiping He, Ph.D., and his colleagues at Arizona State University and Kinetic Muscles, […]
Learn to build your very own Computerized Android Robot Head:
‘It is possible to build a computer-driven, life-size, android robot head (Figure 1) for cost of materials of about $600.00. The android head will have two color video-camera eyes with the video going both into a window on the PC and into an image processing Java […]
‘Nico, a humanoid robot developed by Brian Scassellati’s lab at Yale University, has a head, neck, torso, one arm and 20 joints and motors. It mimics the movement of an infant, and is modelled after theories about how children learn to reach and grasp objects….
But Nico’s most interesting asset is that it was designed to […]
‘Robots in India have so far been used in cardiac surgeries, but now a Pune-based urologist has taken the lead for using this technique to treat prostate cancer and other urological disorders, like opening up narrow fallopian tubes in women.
According to laparoscopic and reconstructive urologist Sanjay Kulkarni, who is one of the few Indian doctors […]
‘There is something just so tomorrow about the Russian robo-therapists with their mechanical cats.
Alexander Libin softly strokes the orange-cream fur of NeCoRo — a semi-realistic cat-robot packed with visual, auditory and movement-sensitive sensors and weighing 3.5 pounds — while his wife, Elena, serves tea and cookies. They are in their home office on the sixth […]
‘Chinese robot specialists announced April 18 that after two years of research, they have used completely proprietary knowledge to successfully assemble the first made-in-China robot that can show human facial expressions.
Named “Story-Teller”, this robot is 35 centimeters tall and has a cartoonish appearance, with a uniquely fat nose, wise-looking wrinkles, extra-large ears, blonde hair and […]
‘A new chair may help keep elderly people happy, healthy and active.
The SenseChair prototype, developed by a team of researchers and designers at Carnegie Mellon University, uses robotic technology to monitor the sitter’s behavior and respond accordingly.’
Read more at Robot Technology Creates Easy Chair
‘A “robotic” dentist’s drill is to be tested on humans in Europe and the US, and could represent the first step towards more automated dental procedures.
The drill, developed by Tactile Technologies, based in Rehovot, Israel, is designed to take the complexity out of dental implant work. It could make operations cheaper, quicker and less painful […]
‘Chinese scientists say they haveworked out a group of secondary robots which resemble wheels of a vehicle to carry out exploration missions on the moon.
The robot series are an array of independently-controlled, concurrent and reconfigurable secondary robots, each consisting ofan arm for carrying objects, collecting samples, surveying and mapping, and a […]
‘With the reins in one hand and a whip in the other, the purple-jerseyed rider prodded a camel around the track Tuesday at a fast lope. But this boyish jockey attracted none of the ire heaped on camel owners whose beasts are piloted by underfed boys. The jockey was a robot.
By 2007, rulers of this […]
‘If the miniature blimp had been working properly, the future of robotics might have been demonstrated in action yesterday in a Boeing hangar in Everett.
Instead, two little robots armed with Dell laptop computers continuously explored a few square feet of factory floor, but were unable to complete their mission: locating and surrounding a target cube, […]
‘Researchers from Haifa’s Technion have developed a miniature robot that navigates a flexible needle in the human body.
The new needle will allow a surgeon to bypass obstacles in the needle’s path while moving toward its objective within the body.
“We are talking about driving a flexible needle,” says doctoral student Daniel Glozman. Glozman developed the steering […]