We’re not entirely certain that that is the way we want to be treated whether anything happens in the future, but it’s good to manufacture out that a cardiologist has completed the world’s first remote heart operation at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK. The procedure was done using the Remote Catheter Manipulation System built by New Jersey’s Catheter Robotics. One of the challenges faced by surgeons with these tricky procedures is the prolonged exposure to the X-Rays used to monitor the patient, but with that method, the operation can be performed by the Web from anywhere in the world. Regardless of how high-tech things become, you’d probably still feel more comfortable whether your surgeon was at least in the same building, right? Imagine what would happen whether you have a flakey Web connection…

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Data Robotics has just announced its latest Drobo FS Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that will come with all the advantages of the notes Robotics BeyondRAID technology, alongside a drop-dead simple setup. Initial impressions of the device have been favorable, with a user claiming that setting up the device is a snap – all you need to do is install the Drobo Dashboard software on a computer on the network, where it will thereupon go ahead and handle all of the setup decisions on your behalf, freeing your brains for other stuff. A dual core processor runs within, where one of the cores will potential the embedded proprietary OS and the other core running Linux. Each Drobo FS comes with five 2 TB drives, retailing for $1,449 – any takers?

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The iPhone is a wonderful handset, where yet another application for it would be to control a Hexapod robot via user inputs. that is made possible thanks to robotics student Robert Stephenson who came up with the view and subsequently, program. The control method utilized include the touchscreen and accelerometer which will manipulate both forward and reverse controls.

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DARPA has kicked off a robotics software/hardware research and development program known as ARM, where it hopes to construct a robot which is capable of grasping a number of objects using two arms and hands autonomously and skillfully, making us wonder whether DARPA is really Skynet in disguise. that is to help it hold objects such as knives and pistols, and according to the brief, the new robot hand and control software ought to have the capability to “hold an inert grenade with one hand, and pull the pin with the other hand” without mandatory a human to guide or control it in any way. Could terminators be the future of the army?

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Looks like the South Koreans aren’t too far behind when it comes to robotics, as evident by POSTECH’s quadruped robot that might just offer Boston Dynamics’ BigDog some competition. It still has some lengths to go before it overhauls BigDog in terms of technology, but POSTECH seems to be definitely on the right path. They’ll still need to work on its balance, among other issues.

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Intel wants to have chips (theirs, obviously) inside our brains in the future so that there is no need for a mouse or keyboard to take charge of our computers. Dean Pomerleau is the brains behind that vision, where he works for Intel on matters of cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, man-machine interfaces, brain processing of semantic info, and various brain-scanning technologies including fMRI, MEG, EEG and ECoG. We don’t think something like that will ever take off – it would certainly leave the thought of Big Brother knowing our every move and thoughts.

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