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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 -
Squirrels and Birds Inspire Researchers to Create Deceptive Robots
December 3, 2012 — Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers have developed robots that are able to deceive each other. The applications could be implemented by the military in the ... > full story -
Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife: Reconfigurable Robot a Step Toward Something That Can Become Almost Anything
November 30, 2012 — The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the ... > full story
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