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Virtual Reality and Robotics in Neurosurgery: Promise and Challenges
December 20, 2012 — Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, ... > full story -
Dragonflies Have Human-Like 'Selective Attention'
December 20, 2012 — In a discovery that may prove important for cognitive science, our understanding of nature and applications for robot vision, researchers have found evidence that the dragonfly is capable of ... > full story -
Robotic-Assisted Radical Bladder Surgery Potentially Benefits Bladder Cancer Patients
December 19, 2012 — About 30 percent of the more than 70,000 bladder cancer cases expected in 2012 are muscle invasive. In such cases, radical cystectomy is the preferred treatment. In a pilot trial, a team of ... > full story -
'Liquid That Thinks:' Swarm of Ping-Pong-Ball-Sized Robots Created
December 14, 2012 — If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them. A research team has developed a basic robotic building block, which they hope to ... > full story -
New Technique for Minimally Invasive Robotic Kidney Cancer Surgery
December 13, 2012 — Urologists have developed a new technique that could make minimally invasive robotic partial nephrectomy procedures the norm, rather than the exception for kidney cancer patients. The technique ... > full story -
Head-Mounted Cameras Could Help Robots Understand Social Interactions
December 13, 2012 — What is everyone looking at? It's a common question in social settings because the answer identifies something of interest, or helps delineate social groupings. Those insights someday will be ... > full story -
Mars Rover Self-Portrait Shoot Uses Arm Choreography
December 11, 2012 — The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity held the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera in more than 50 positions in one day to generate a single scene combining all the images, creating ... > full story -
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Robotic Scarless Gallbladder Surgery
December 11, 2012 — Surgeons have performed a gallbladder surgery using just one incision, leaving patients without a noticeable ... > full story -
Automation Systems Become Flexible When Robots Make Their Own Decisions
December 5, 2012 — Researchers in Sweden have created an automation system where machines and robots make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances. They continue to work even when something goes wrong. ... > full story -
NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim
December 4, 2012 — The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a ... > full story
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