New Robot Gives Surgeons a Sense of Touch
Newer cars and the new iPhone use haptic feedback, a small vibration in the steering wheel or the home button, to signal you have crossed over the white line on the highway or you have pushed the home button on your iPhone. A team at Australia’s Deakin University and Harvard University have used similar technology in […]
Robot Used to Perform Surgery Inside an Eye
Healthcare innovation is happening all over the world. A Dutch company has developed a surgical robot for performing complex and intricate surgery inside the human eye. A man in Oxford, United Kingdom was the beneficiary of the first ever robot surgery using the new system. The new Precedes Surgical Robot is able to handle very delicate procedures which require great […]
Robots Walking Like Humans
Remember Star Wars’ C-3PO, the droid programmed for etiquette and protocol, built by the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker? Remember how he walked, mechanically. Take a look at the YouTube video at the top of this story and watch how Georgia Tech’s DURUS robot strolls on his size 13 arched, spring-loaded metal feet. The engineers started with […]
World’s First Internally Motorized Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot
There are many advantages to robotic surgery. There are five incisions required but they are small. Blood loss is minimized, infection rates are reduced, and time in the hospital is shorter than with open surgery. I speak first hand, as I had a robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in July 2014. I went to the hospital early […]
Nanomotors In Our Bodies?
Nanobots traveling in the bloodstream of humans is hard to visualize, but it is likely to be an important part of healthcare in the future. A complimentary technology has been announced by the University of Texas at Austin. UT engineers there claim to have built the “smallest, fastest, and longest-running synthetic motors ever created”. The nanomotora are less than […]