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Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International

Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI InternationalGreat video..I've been following this science since 2001 and it is good to see how it's "fleshing" out, so to speak. Actually no pun intended.

Tags: Robots, Medical Robotics, Tom Low, Smart People, SRI International, robotics, Tom

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

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News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International

A robot in every operating room? Tom Low leads a team of researchers and engineers working on the next generation of medical robots to be used in laparoscopic surgery. Pioneered in the 1980s by SRI, the procedures involve doctors making very small incisions and then using long, skinny, robotically controlled...

Tags: Robotics, SRI International, Tom Low, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

The idea of nanorobots floating throughout our arteries to fight diseases and deliver drugs is migrating from science fiction to medical fact, at least in virtual 3D simulations. Nanorobotics pioneer Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues report progress with their nanorobot control design NCD software which helps them simulate the behavior...

Tags: Gradient, Vessel, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Collaborative Technology Prepares New Zealand Medical Robotics Innovator for Global Growth

Smart Orthotics Limited is a New Zealand based technology company that has designed and developed a world-first 'Smart' disability aid that enables disabled users to walk by using patented robotic technologies. In order to complete the development of its robotic exoskeleton mobility aid and prepare for release to market, Smart...

Tags: Robotics, New Zealand, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Team Management, Robots, Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites

Case studies 2008-07-10

A UMan robotic arm

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...

Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

The Google of health care

The health care equipment market made a major turn in 2007. (Picture from Intuitive Surgical.) The old dominance of gadgets and cosmetic surgery equipment gave way to that of Intuitive Surgical. Its DaVinci robotic surgeon has made it the Google of the health care sector. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Robotics, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Robots, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-01

Commercial brain computer systems are coming

All over the world, systems that directly connect silicon circuits to brains are under development, and some are nearly ready for commercial applications, according to a new report from the World Technology Evaluation Center and announced by a news release of the University of Southern California USC. Some of the...

Tags: University Of Southern California, Panel, Report, Computer, BCI, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Nanorobots for drug delivery?

The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-08

Haptics for stroke victims

If you think of haptics at all, it's likely in terms of force-feedback joysticks. It's a game. But it's not a game for stroke victims. A Rice robotics team under Marcia O'Malley right is harnessing haptics to promote faster stroke recovery and more accurate measurements for therapists. The...

Tags: Therapist, Joystick, Marcia O'Malley, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-07

GPS accuracy for a robotic neurosurgeon

The MiniAture Robot for Surgical Applications MARS is already FDA-approved for orthopedic and spinal surgery. Now, Israeli scientists have given it GPS accuracy for keyhole neurosurgery. This is a minimally invasive procedure used for tumor biopsies or deep brain stimulation, but you need to know exactly where you operate. So...

Tags: Keyhole Inc., Robot, Registration, GPS, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Euclib 1.1.0 (Windows)

It is the perfect tool for the development of a wide range of applications such as: Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Machining, Robotics, Cinematic, Geographic Information Systems, Medical Imaging, Image Processing, Haptics and more. The entities supported are Points, Vectors, Lines, Segments, Circles, Arcs, Bounds, Quadratic and Cubic...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Entity, Euclib, GIS, CAD, Robots, Productivity, Document Management, Software, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2007-08-22

Euclib 1.1.0 (Mac)

It is the perfect tool for the development of a wide range of applications such as: Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Machining, Robotics, Cinematic, Geographic Information Systems, Medical Imaging, Image Processing, Haptics and more. The entities supported are Points, Vectors, Lines, Segments, Circles, Arcs, Bounds, Quadratic and Cubic...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Entity, Euclib, GIS, CAD, Robots, Productivity, Document Management, Software, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2007-08-21

A robot that travels through the body

The reference to the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" is maybe too obvious. But Israeli scientists have developed a 1-millimeter-diameter medical robot that will be able to crawl within our veins and arteries. It's too early to know when this medical robot is allowed to explore a real human being. But...

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-06-26

A swimming robot -- inside your body

The Boston Globe describes the efforts of a Japanese-born scientist to develop new technologies for use in surgery. His last project is to build a swimming robot designed to explore the human gastrointestinal tract GI tract from esophagus to colon. This 2-centimeter long robot will have a swimming tail to...

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Robotic arm lends a hand after stroke

In the U.S., stroke is a major cause of long-term disability which affects 700,000 people annually. Most of them are over 65 years old and some have difficulties grasping objects after their stroke. This is why Californian researchers have developed a robotic therapy which helps restore hand use after stroke....

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation, Howard, patient, therapy

Blog posts 2007-02-12

N.Y. lawmaker hopes to ban iPod use in crosswalks

N.Y. lawmaker hopes to ban iPod use in crosswalksWhats next fine all clueless people?That has got to be the most insanely stupid thing that I have ever heard of. If someone is so clueless as to their surroundings that they walk in front of a bus, they are going...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

A new 'language' for surgery?

After watching surgeons using robotic systems for a while, computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University have decided to borrow ideas from speech recognition research to build what theyre calling a Language of Surgery. In speech recognition, basic sounds are called phonemes. For surgery tasks, such as suturing, dissecting and joining...

Tags: surgeon, Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Swarms of microrobots with big goals

In "Mini robots to undertake major tasks?," IST Results describes a EU-funded project which allowed to build several kinds of microrobots in the last three years. These robots are very small (about 1.5 cm by 3 cm), have limited on-board intelligence and are wirelessly controlled by a central robot control...

Tags: robot

Blog posts 2006-02-25