Inside Neurosurgery’s Rise
August 26th, 2010. News. No Comments.
Terry Dagradi/Yale University
HISTORY’S PANTRY Most of the jars now at Yale’s Cushing Center contain a single brain; a few hold slices of brains from several patients. They were collected by Dr. Harvey Cushing, a Yale professor and one of the first neurosurgeons in the United States. More Photos »
By Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.
NEW HAVEN read more…
Chatting With Bina 48, A Robot
August 16th, 2010. News Coverage. No Comments.
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
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A Word Of Mouth first: an interview with a robot. Not your typical movie star robot with an all-knowing brain or one that talks in squalks. Bina 48 isn’t made of gleaming metal, and has read more…
Robots Performing Surgery With Full Autonomy
August 1st, 2010. Robotics. No Comments.
LifeNaut Notes: Here’s a really cool article from Smart Machines that includes a brief video of a medical robot undergoing trail tests. Some pretty cool stuff to think that a robot could be automated to operate on the human body.
Source: “Robots performing surgery with full autonomy”
Robotic arms have been used in medical procedures for a read more…
Rex Bionics Exoskeleton To Help Paraplegics Improve Their Quality Of Life
July 20th, 2010. Bionics. No Comments.
LifeNaut Notes: A bionic device by definition is the mix of biology and electronics. The Rex Exoskeleton attached to the both to help paraplegics move about in a normal manner. It would seem in this example that the human element is teaching the mechanical element, but who’s to say it’s not the other way around? read more…
Thermal-Powered, Crawls Into Microrobot Contenders’ Ring
July 13th, 2010. Human Avatars. No Comments.
LifeNaut Notes: One of the questions people think about when contemplating human avatars in the future is power. If there is a substitute to the human body, presumably robotic in some fashion, it will need a source of power. Here’s a great article from Science Daily
about a new technology that uses a series of tiny read more…
Making Friends With A Robot Named Bina48
July 5th, 2010. News Coverage. No Comments.
Source: “Making Friends With A Robot Named Bina48″ on the New York Times
Published: July 4th, 2010 by Amy Harmon
The reporter Amy Harmon talking to Bina48.
Bristol, VT. — Ten minutes into my interview with the robot known as Bina48, I longed to shut her down.
She was evasive, for one thing. When I asked what it was read more…
The Avatar Revolution: Here Come The New Humans
June 17th, 2010. Human Avatars. No Comments.
Source: “The Avatar Revolution: Here Come The New Humans”
When it was unveiled in June 2000, the first draft of the human genome marked a new stage in our understanding of who we are. Ten years later and our view of human identity may be changing again. Thanks to the plethora of personal information about each read more…
LiminAR Robot Integrates Advertising Into Your Reality
June 10th, 2010. Augmented Reality. No Comments.
Lifenaut Notes: Human integration into the brain of a computer has, and continues to be a hotbed for innovation. This is a great example of how current technologies can be programmed to integrate information into the world around us. Imagine picking up a book at the bookstore and seeing reviews from five of your closest read more…