Month: November 2006
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Da Vinci Robot, Helps Surgeons to Operate Prostate Cancers
Every day we learn how robot technology is used to help us with tasks that are far from trivial. This robot, named after the famous painter “Leonardo Da Vinci” helps surgeons to reduce the risks of complications to 1/3 to the normal rate. Da Vinci, has nothing that resembles the humanoid type of robot. Here…
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Battlebots, Gladiators of the 21st century
Robots can do a lot of things, so why not put them to fight against each other? This idea, born in 1994 with the “Robot Wars†competition that was held in August, at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. The idea is to put robots into different competitions, like playing football, the tug…