Showing posts with label robotic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robotic. Show all posts

Flying Robotic Builders (video)

Is the the building method of the future? The prototypes sound like an angry swarm of mosquitoes.

Would You Allow Your Heart to be Operated on by Robotic Arm?


Remote operation allows doctors to operate from a room next door and avoid radiation and lead aprons used in many heart procedures.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2010) — The world's first remote heart procedure, using a robotic arm alongside 3-D mapping, is due to take place at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. It comes six months after Dr Andre Ng carried out the first ever remote catheter ablation procedure using the Amigo Robotic Catheter System.

Dr Ng, is senior lecturer at the University of Leicester and consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Glenfield Hospital.

On November 16, Dr Ng will be carrying out another "world first" using the robotic arm in combination with advanced 3-dimensional mapping to fix an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF).

Robotics and virtual reality on show in Tokyo (video)

Robotics and virtual reality on show in Tokyo (video)

The Digital Contents Expo highlighted some of the latest university research.

Israeli military testing 'robotic' snake (video)

Israeli military testing 'robotic' snake

According to news reports, the Israeli military has developed a "robotic" snake that can transmit video and audio as it crawls through difficult terrain.