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Raven II, The Open Source Surgical Robot
The Raven II surgical robot has been developed at the University of Santa Cruz and the University of Washington. Five of these robots will be shipped to other universities like Johns Hopkins for further research. Jacob Rosen and Blake Hannaford are leading the research. Rosen stated: We decided to follow an open-source model, because if [...]
Robots to Help Aging Nuclear Plants?
The recent crisis in Japan has spurred the United States and other countries to think harder about nuclear power and safety. Nuclear facilities in the US may get a pipe inspecting robot to help them out. Harry Asada, the director of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology and his colleagues are working on [...]
Robot Film Festival
Congratulations to all the winners of the Robot Film Festival, held in New York City over last weekend. Shown here is audience favorite is Operation daVinci. Here are two of the many films we liked. Me and My Robots by Jay Kila & Ben Jacob Mack Modern World by David Naylor if you didn’t make [...]
Robot Dresser
Anthony Prego built this awesome dresser for his nephew. Checkout more pictures of building the robot dresser. Nice job Anthony! Link via (Make)
Robot Watson On Jeopardy
In a match similar to that of when Deep Blue played Garry Kasparov in a famous chess match, another robot will play on the quiz show Jeopardy this coming February. The robot created by IBM is called Watson and will play against two previous winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The winner will claim a [...]