Medical
Three Questions for Chetan Kapoor – Agile Planet
Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet. We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.
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Artificial Companion Mitigates Alzheimer’s
Paro Robots U.S., Inc. will be distributing Japan’s Intelligent Systems’ artificial life form Paro in the US and Canada. Modeled after a baby harp seal, it is designed to provide therapeutic services to patients with Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia, and emotional complications stemming from the prolonged recovery associated with severe injury and illness. [...]
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Notes from Uncanny Valley – Dentistry
Uncanny Valley, as discussed previously at Robot Central, represents the phase (in Crossing the Chasm parlance) where humanoid robots adopt near human characteristics – but only near enough to creep us real humans out. Think of a robot in the valley as a zombie type creature. From Japan (and reported in IT Media via Pink [...]
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Like an iRobot Looj but much, much smaller
While iRobot has been busy designing robots for cleaning your gutters, a team at Chonnam National University in Korea has been busy designing another robotic pipe cleaner. In this case, the pipes are human arteries. News of this robot was recently covered in The Telegraph: A microscopic robot small enough to travel through blood vessels [...]
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Robotic Techniques in Surgery: Intuitive Surgical [ISRG]
On October 4th, the University of Michigan Medical School is hosting a day-long seminar on robotic surgery. The seminar is being sponsored by Intuitive Surgical, manufacturer of the daVinci robotic surgical system. Seminars and subsequent adoption of robotic techniques for surgical procedures such as prostatectomy, cardiotomy and gynecology are on the rise, yet the target [...]
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