In a bid to reduce the length of surgeries, and to cause a decline in current post-op infection rates, experts at the Purdue University have developed a new integrated system that allows surgeons to control robots in the OR with a simple gesture of their hand or arm.The gestures will be analyzed by a complex system, ... |
4 February 2011
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Surgeons use very thin, and very sharp, blades called scalpels in order to perform surgery. The small width of the blade ensures that they can precisely target whatever tumor or group of cells they are looking to eradicate, but it has over the years become obvious that increased accuracy is needed. For example, in br... |
6 April 2010
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As most of you who had at least some connection with using a scalpel, a brush, a pencil or some other tool will know, doing very precise work over prolonged periods of time is exhausting. Artists, including painters and sketch designers, surgeons and other workers have been complaining about this for a long time, and... |
8 March 2010
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Recent advancements in nanotechnology and the field of robotics could mean that small-scale nanobots could soon make their way into operating theaters, experts predict. There are already a few research groups conducting investigations in this field, and some of them have made considerable headway. This is also the ca... |
22 December 2009
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Recent advancements in the fields of robotics mean that, soon, we could see robotic dentists meeting us inside specialized cabinets. Still, they will not totally take over the job of humans, experts believe, as there will always be someone there to tell you to open wide and relax. The years of education and hands-on ... |
25 November 2009
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When new airline pilots are being trained, they are not placed inside the cockpit as soon as they finish basic training. They spend hundreds of hours in simulators, learning all possible aspects of the plane, and how it could fail, and are given a plane after they know the machine inside out. However, in the case of ... |
11 August 2009
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A new scientific study shows that a simple row of warm-up exercises done before starting a procedure yields far better results in terms of the outcome than no warm-up at all. This conclusion, published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, is based on observations made on many surg... |
3 February 2009
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