Category — robots

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[sketches by Maura Cluthe | Flickr Set]

“Calgary doctors have made surgical history, using a robot to remove a brain tumour from a 21-year-old woman. Doctors used remote controls and an imaging screen, similar to a video game, to guide the two-armed robot through Paige Nickason’s brain during the nine-hour surgery Monday.”

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Liz Phair vs. Asimo Hashup from Diggs Harrington on Vimeo.

Wall-E Spotted in LA! from Blink on Vimeo.

[YouTube | Honda PR]

Here is a machine can makes copies of itself:

Here is a robot that can re assemble itself:

What happens when these two technologies are combined?

More on the reprap:

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[RepRap | Adrian Bowyer @ Poptech]

[YouTube | see also headless robot dog]

[Youtube | Festo Air Jelly | via Sean]

[Article @ PopSci | Video @ PopSci]

The army’s machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move”

[read more @ Pop Sci | via Digg]