Play Lego unloading pairs to build a city may already be a regular activity. But a group of Lego fans create a “giant chess robot” using Lego. Uniquely, the whole “Lego pieces” are strung together like a robot that can move.
To finalize the work of such unique needs of a year, and the power of four people to complete these unique works. Quoted from Inhabitat, Tuesday (06/15/2010), required 100 000 lego and field area of 156 meters to show the lego chess robot action.
The existence of robots that harm humans incident led researchers to seek new breakthroughs. They also created a special system that makes the machines will stop operating when it detects human flesh.
This robot was designed by Alin Albu-Schaffer and Gerd Hirzinger. From the results, they created a robot that can detect the presence of humans so as not to attack and injure him.
The usual therapeutic activity of stroke patients no longer have to be guided by a human therapist, the robot was able to take on this role. Results of treatment no less good. Do you believe this?
This has been proven by scientists from Brown University. By using a robot named MIT-Manus, they succeeded in proving that robots could also be a therapist to treat stroke patients.
This experiment itself included 127 patients stroke patients who already suffer from diseases that interfere with the nervous system since five years ago. The patients were initially divided into three groups.
Japanese electronics companies, NEC, to develop a robot that is destined to work as a cashier. This robot named PaPeRo, its funny and cute.
Unlike the robots in general, PaPeRo is not equipped with hand. Then how it serves the consumer? Well that’s where the strengths, he simply relies on his voice to guide consumers to make payments.
Quoted from Cnet News, PaPeRo did not work alone. But it’s also equipped with payment device called “E-Money Twinpos Self-Checkout System” made by NEC.
Robotic surgery has experienced great popularity for urologic surgery; particularly cancers of the prostate located deep in the pelvis.
In 2009, it is estimated that 192,280 new cases will be diagnosed and more than 27,000 men will die of prostate cancer. The lifetime probability of developing prostate cancer is one in six for American men. Current treatment alternatives for clinically localized prostate cancer include removal of the prostate gland (surgery), radiation to the cancerous prostate (external beam or radioactive seed implants), active surveillance, or other treatments (hormonal or cryotherapy).
Radical prostatectomy via an open approach has historically been the gold standard therapy for the surgical treatment of prostate cancer. While oncologic and functional outcomes following open radical prostatectomy are excellent, prolonged recovery is a legitimate concern for physicians and patients. With such considerations, an impetus within the surgical community has been to reduce the complications of procedures without compromising on established standards of care. To that end, laparoscopic surgery, which is performed via several tiny holes rather than one long incision, has been shown to reduce perioperative complications while improving recovery. Robotic surgery represents the next potential iteration for advances in minimally invasive surgery.
