Cancer is considered to be a four letter word to many, and some say that it is a death sentence. Do you agree? I have had family and friends fall to the scourge of cancer over the years that passed by, and they do say that detecting cancer early enough is one of the most effective methods of stopping this disease in its tracks. Enter this Hamilton robot which is capable of changing the way early detection and treatment of breast cancer happens, doing so within months. It is currently being tested on patients, and inventor of the Hamilton robot, Dr. Mehran Anvari, said, “Women in Hamilton will be one of the first to have access to it. Its accuracy is extremely high. We hope it will enhance care.”
Hopefully it will be able to sniff out more than just breast cancer for the future as well. After all, there are many other kinds of cancer out there, and if the Hamilton robot were to be able to pick those up before they progress to the later stages of development, it would definitely be a case of being in the nick of time.
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Researchers have successfully replicated the muscle motion of the human eye which is used to control camera systems thanks to the wonders of piezoelectric materials, and this new discovery will be used to improve the operation of robots. How so? How about hearing that this spanking new muscle-like action could eventually see robotic tools be a whole lot safer than before to use, not to mention paving the way for a more effective MRI-guided surgery as well as robotic rehabilitation.
According to a bunch of US experts, they have laid claim to what they deem as the most biologically-accurate robotic legs to date. They wrote about this particular achievement in the Journal of Neural Engineering, where they claimed that their work would be full well capable of assisting one in understanding just how babies are able to learn how to walk, as well as aid in future spinal-injury treatments. Basically, this bunch of scientists managed to come up with their own version of the message system which is capable of generating the rhythmic muscle signals which control walking.
The whole idea of using one’s brains to control a particular object is close to our hearts – after all, who does not want seemingly supernatural or superhuman powers? Well, it seems that scientists have managed to figure out how one is able to use one’s thought power alone to control a tiny humanoid robot. Not only that, we are not talking about a local connection here – no sir, the person controlling the robot was hooked up to a brain scanner in Israel, while the robot was located a continent away in France, moving around the laboratory.
Strange, I was just watching Terminator 2 yesterday evening, and it was interesting to see a young punk of John Connor teaching the T-800 different nuances of human emotions and responses, even asking him to smile. Robots do not feel as they are machines, making them efficient killing tools (or workers at the factory), but inventor Nobuhiro Takahashi has decided to inject a little bit of “humanity” into the world of robotics, doing so via his creation “SHIRI”, which is translated to “butt” from Japanese, which is a robot butt that can respond with different emotions to different human touches.