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Brazil surgical robot fixes heart in Latin America firstSao Paulo (AFP) March 19, 2010 Brazilian surgeons used a multi-armed robot to repair a hole in a woman's heart in the first operation of its kind in Latin America, they told AFP Friday. Robinson Poffo, one of the surgeons involved, said the procedure was performed on a 35-year-old patient this week at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. "There was a hole between the right side and left side of the heart. We corrected this intracardiac defect by using the robot," he said. The hi-tech assistant, a robot fitted with f ... read more |
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Woods Hole, Mass. (UPI) Mar 9, 2009 The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution says its pioneering deep-sea exploration robot the "Autonomous Benthic Explorer" has been lost at sea. The robot, nicknamed ABE, was one of the first successful submersible vehicles that could operate both unmanned and untethered to surface ships. Officials said it was lost Friday during a research expedition off the coast of Chile. Scient ... more  
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 10, 2010University of Utah engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue. "We've invented a new device - the Active Handrest - that's useful for aiding people in performing precision tasks with their hands such as surge ... more  
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010Students at Virginia Tech's Unmanned Systems Laboratory are perfecting an autonomous helicopter they hope will never be used for its intended purpose. Roughly six feet long and weighing 200 pounds, the re-engineered aircraft is designed to fly into American cities blasted by a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb. The helicopter's main mission would be to assist military investigators in the unthi ... more |
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Gadgets galore as Somali pirates spur booming sectorNairobi (AFP) March 7, 2010 Somali pirates raked in an estimated 60 million dollars in 2009 but the Indian Ocean's ransom hunters have also spurred a much larger industry of ship protection devices. As the 36,000 ships that bottleneck into the Gulf of Aden each year try to dodge marauding pirates and keep a lid on insurance premiums, an astonishing array of inventions has cropped up on the flourishing market. With obstacles remaining to the deployment of onboard security personnel, a myriad of hoses, nets, lasers, radars - ... read more |
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