Doctors have carried out a life-saving heart procedure with the help of a sophisticated robot. Cardiologists in Leicester were the first in the world to use a new robot that practically fucntions as the doctor’s right arm. The procedure involved passing a thin metal wire along the patient’s blood vessels and into the heart.If the muscle misfires electrical signals, it would raise the risk of a heart attack or stroke, eventually complicating the entire operation, but this could be made easy using the machine. The current robot system is much simpler to use than previous ones and doctors can be trained in just 15 minutes instead of several weeks.The system costs is expected to be around £350,000.
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Sophisticated Heart Surgeries with Robotic Support
Friday, May 7th, 2010
The silent rising army of the machines!
Sunday, April 18th, 2010The world robot population is on the rise. Today we the robot population stands at 8.6 Million. We should observe a calm but steady rise in the numbers. The data is illustrated below.
Currently the robots play a major role as industry robots and service robots. The industry robots includes welding systems, assembly manipulators, and other heavy, expensive operation oriented machines. The service robots consists of professional service robots like surgical systems, poultry robots, etc and personal service robots like vacuum cleaners, etc.
By 2011, the world’s industrial robot population is expected to rise to 1.2 million. Which areas will these robots cater to, and how the machine-to-human balance will change, remains to be seen. Though the robots are not readily visible, and are yet to become a part of our everyday life, the machines are rising in numbers.
Introducing Simon.
Sunday, April 18th, 2010Simon is know to learn new tasks faster. Lets take a peek at how he does it in the following video.
Its easy to imagine such machines at home to aid residents. Having a machine in kitchen to help to cook or next to a closet to arrange/ handle clothes management. These machines are a clear sign of what to expect in the near future.
[Read more at PC World]
Tiny robots making medical treatment a dream come true!
Sunday, April 18th, 2010A recent break through at Technion University have unveiled a tiny robot, made using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, purportedly able to crawl through a person’s veins in order to diagnose and potentially treat artery blockage and cancer. The robot which is bigger then a WBC or RBC but small enough to enter a vein or artery and can unblock or diagnose is of immense help.
How does it function? Does it have any control system in place either onboard or external? The robot neither has any control engine nor onboard mechanism, instead it is being propelled forward by a magnetic field wielded on it from outside the patient’s body.
But many important questions still remain unanswered.
- Has this robot reached human trails? (This looks production ready)
- What would be the cost of such a device? (Say will this reduce operation costs or increase them)
- Does this robot has a fail safe system in place if it goes haywire?
- Whether such diagnoses is being considered safe or is being authorized/approved by any medical administration board?
Today, we would safely conclude this truly looks futuristic, but we still are in early stages of such treatment development and have a long way ahead.
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