ER 2.0 : Robots surgery by Jessica Griggs

IF a soldier is severely wounded, they have a markedly better chance of survival if they are seen by a doctor within the hour. But what if the closest field hospital is more than an hour away, or the nearby unit doesn't have the necessary medical expertise?

Help could come in the form of a mobile operating theatre, according to a consortium led by non-profit lab SRI International, based in Menlo Park, California. The device, called Trauma Pod, is still in the early stages, but its developers claim it will ultimately be able to retrieve someone from the battlefield, diagnose them, and perform lifesaving procedures while transferring them to hospital.

Inside the prototype theatre are a team of robots, led by a robotic surgeon remotely controlled by an actual surgeon. The lead robot has three arms under the surgeon's control: one holds an endoscope to allow the surgeon to see inside the patient while the other two grip the surgical tools.

Ultimately, the robot surgeon will be able to perform "temporary fix" procedures to buy the patient a few more hours until they reach a hospital, says lead developer Pablo Garcia at SRI International. "The system will focus on damage control surgery, the minimum necessary to stabilise someone," he says. "It could provide airway control, relieve immediate life-threatening injuries such as a collapsed lung, or stop bleeding temporarily."

The robot will focus on damage control, to buy someone a few more hours until they reach a hospital

Garcia says the robot could also be instructed to independently perform some relatively simple tasks, such as placing stitches or tying knots, to allow the surgeon to concentrate on more complex procedures.

The surgical robot is assisted by 12 other robotic systems, so far also at the prototype stage. The bed itself, developed by Integrated Medical Systems in Signal Hill, California, monitors the patient's vital signs, can administer fluids and oxygen, and will eventually act as an anaesthesiologist, using a robotic arm to place an IV line to deliver drugs. The "scrub nurse", a voice-activated robot arm, passes fresh tools and supplies to the "surgeon" and disposes of used equipment, while the role of circulating nurse is performed by a tool-dispensing robot. Each machine communicates with the others and is closely monitored by software programmed with the correct series of steps for a range of emergency procedures, to ensure everything happens in the right order and prevent collisions. The human surgeon can control each robot and speak to the patient to provide reassurance.

The pod is also equipped with a three-dimensional X-ray scanner, and later versions should include an ultrasound device too.

The system can't operate completely independently of people on the ground, Garcia admits. Fellow soldiers may still be needed to pick up a severely injured or traumatised comrade and place them on the bed, for example.

The Trauma Pod is being developed with $12 million in funding from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It recently completed the first phase of a feasibility trial, in which the robots inserted a plastic tube, or shunt, into a damaged blood vessel in a mannequin's leg and performed an operation to close a perforated bowel - two common injuries following a bullet wound (The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, DOI: 10.1002/rcs.238).

For the trials, the team used the da Vinci surgical robot, which has been performing keyhole surgical procedures in hospitals since its introduction in 2001. Garcia says this robot will eventually be replaced by one specifically designed for damage-control surgery, which the team hopes to develop next.

Other significant challenges remain, including improving the pod's life support systems and demonstrating its ability to stabilise a patient's airway without being controlled by a human surgeon. Eventually the team hopes to shrink Trauma Pod and all its robots to a bunk-bed sized object suitable for carrying on the back of a vehicle, and encase it in a shell able to withstand the rigours of the battlefield.

If development continues as planned, Garcia believes Trauma Pod could be sent to battle zones or other dangerous areas, such as those struck by natural disasters, within 10 years. Also some of the individual systems, such as the life support modules, could find their way into hospital operating theatres much sooner, he says.

Equipping the military with a fleet of robotic battle surgeons will not come cheap, however. The da Vinci robot costs about $1.5 million, plus $150,000 a year in maintenance. This price should come down, Garcia says. "Robotics is really exploding in all different fields. There is no reason why a lot of the technologies won't get cheaper over the next few years."

Ara Darzi of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery at Imperial College London says the project has the right vision, but will be challenging. "It will be interesting to see how the system fares in a more hostile environment than the sterile test pod the initial trials were conducted in," he says.

But Brendan Visser, a surgeon at Stanford University in California who helped develop the Trauma Pod, is impressed with how far the project has come. "Three separate robots dance over the top of the patient with their powerful arms moving very quickly, yet they don't crash and they're able to deliver very small items from one arm to another," he says. "It's like those drunk-driving tests where they make you close your eyes and touch your nose, but at very high speed with arms that would break your nose if they smashed into it."

Source : http://www.newscientist.com

The APPLICATION BLUETOOTH as the MANAGER of the SIMPLE ROBOT

The development of technology caused the trend to make the human activity to more was easy and practical. The control and the sending of the data without using the cable (wireless) was one of the real shapes from this trend. The control and the sending of the data with tidak uses the cable now the public used the media infra red, ultrasonic, radio waves, the laser, the network of the telephone selular (the mobile phone) and more.

Through technology wireless that continued to develop for several last years, the use of the cable as communication means increasingly was reduced by this was caused had the limitations in part long the cable, the cable fitting, the complicated cable installation, impractical and inflexible.

Bluetooth technology was one of the replacement medias of the cable and infrared link that connected devais that one and other used relations of short-distance radio. Bluetooth operated to ISM Band (Industrial,Scientific, and Medical) in 2.4GHz and was designed light as well as was easy to be brought. Bluetooth could be united with other equipment and was met standarisasi as well as protocol in order to make him mobile, strong, and did not depend on the certain company.

The superiority bluetooth including being powerful low, was easy to be used, transferred the maximum data 721Kbps, kept against noise because used frekuensihopping.

The use of the computer as the centre of the manager, mikrokontroler as the organiser of the work of the implement and the feedback recipient, as well as network communication serial was based on RS 232 were one of the alternatives that could diimplementasikan to fill this demand.

The Autonomous Robot

The robot was a mechanics implement that could carry out the physical task, good used the supervision and the control of humankind, or used the program that was defined.



Autonomous could be interpreted as something that was done by all of them individually.



So as to be able to be concluded the Otonom Robot was a mechanics implement that was made and programed in such a way as to be able to work personally in accordance with what was needed and usually already did not need the control from humankind.

Razor Most Expensive in the World

Too ... but not really out there .. I think the people who buy maw is razor ...? There's packet of razor and have a lot of money? me I can try wow .. ..


Damascene Razor blade is made from 128 layers of iron coated platinum, ensuring the shaver you become a clean and tidy.

According to the manufacturer's razor, the iron is used to make iron sword (swords), which is known by the name of Damascus so that the sharpness of the blade can split a piece of silk with only dropping to the razor sharp in this. Hmmm. . . . such as the samurai only is it?

Now, talking about the price of the most exciting because for a razor sharp, you need to pay about U.S. $ 30,000 (equivalent to Rp. 290,000,000). And the means to make Damascene Razor blade as the most expensive in the world.

Handyman Hand Robot for the convenience of the future

Handyman Hand

For centuries, people have used the human body, and the hand in particular, as an inspiration and blueprint for engineering innovations.

But copying the human hand hasn't been easy. Its complex muscular and skeletal structure offers a unique, tricky balance: It is dexterous, stable and precise, but also fast moving, strong and flexible.

Despite the challenges, makers of robot hands have called on a host of innovations from a variety of disciplines to bring us closer to fully automated hands.

Considered to be the first working robot hand, the Handyman, developed in 1960 by General Electric's Ralph Mosher, was a two-fingered, heavily jointed claw that set up the foundation for later hands.

The design looks rudimentary now, but the five-pivot segment design in each finger was innovative in its attempt to replicate the human hand's flexible joint structure. A human hand is made up of a set of rigid links (bones and muscles) connected at joints. Each joint can have one degree of freedom (hinging or sliding) or two (rotating or cylindrical). We have four degrees of freedom in each finger, giving us enormous flexibility and the ability to make complex motions.

The Handyman's fingers had three degrees of freedom. But it was the attached mechanical forearm that provided most of the wrist action, as mechanical "tendons" pushed and pulled on the fingers. A technician had to manipulate the hand by placing his arm inside the apparatus like a puppet.

The Handyman's capabilities were limited: It could pinch and hold, but had no sensitivity to what it was holding, limiting it to clawing indiscriminately at things.

source by : www.wired.com

Gibson Robot Guitar - Powertune System Technology and Self Tuning Guitar

The guitar can tune itself (self-Tuning guitar) on the London public. A guitar instrument that can detect the error a wire guitar tone automatically and directly alter the strings to the Pitch the right tone. The tool was created to be able to save six kinds of guitar Tuning favorite guitarist.



This guitar in the call Gibson Robot Guitar. In the demo by Mike Peters, vocalist and guitarist from the music group The Alarm, big band from Wales in the 1980s with a famous rock song "Sixty-Eight Guns.

This guitar manufacturer, Gibson company based in Nashville, Tennessee, said that the technology used in the instrument will change the guitar world guitar technology since at this time. Technology self-Tuning Gibson guitar owned by the results of this research for 10 years and will begin to be sold in the form of guitar-Gibson Les Paul series starting Friday tomorrow.

Self-Tuning All this dibandrol worth U.S. $ 2,900, or approximately Rp. 26.9 million in the UK. For the initial stage, each Gibson guitar shop in the world will only be given a ration fruits only 10 stocks. Versions of this will be available in the colors of Blue Silverburst Les Paul model.versi others have been following the beginning of January 2008.
Inventor of this technology, Chris Adams from Tronical GmbH, inspired after himself frustrated because he must repeatedly perform manual Tuning in gitarnya, describes this idea as "Mercedes-his guitar." Auto-Tuning Tool buatannya this has also been used by the guitarist Billy Corgan (smashing Pumpkins) and Matt Bellamy (Muse).

Technology robotik made by Tronical GmbH, in cooperation with Gibson Guitar Corp.. This allows Gibson Les Paul model to make their own Tuning in 2 seconds. For the guitarist who only buy the technology, auto-Tuning it only as add-on, will be able to recognize their guitar Pitch. Then, will lead processors motor in each wire to loosen or tighten voltage wire guitar.

Tronical sell separate add-on technology as a "Powertune System" online gitarnya $ 900 without. According to Tronical, this tool can be installed in various types of electrical guitar without a disability leave.

Gibson and Tronical says the technology is useful for the beginner guitar players who are still difficulties tune guitar wire and the professionals who want the 6 types Tuning to different guitar. Tuning that can be stored in the memory equipment is activated for a time when needed. The tool is able to recognize and mennyimpant Tuning original guitarist belong only to recognize the voice with the guitar wire.

To activate one of the Tuning, guitarist only need to attract one of the Knob guitar, the type of play to suit the desired Tuning marked with a blue light, and then pressing it again Knob. An electronic signal will be sent to the wire guitar and delivered to the motor auto-Tuning. This system is driven by a Lithium-ion battery that can be rechargeable. Fans of Gibson guitars are Slash (Guns N 'Roses), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Lenny Kravitz, Eric Clapton, Paul Weller and Paul McCartney.

The robot "AIKO is woman robot of "the future"

The scientist dated Robot his Creation

Humankind was at one time forecasted would the love with the robot. At this time then evidently has had the scientist who created the concrete robot the pretty woman lovely that was made the colleague of his life.

Le Trung, this scientist, spent the cost 14.000 sterling pound to create the robot named Aiko this. Trung that lived in Canada admitted to not having time to look for the girlfriend so as he designed the robot captured this as his colleague

In order to bring about his ideal robot, former programmer software this was willing to owe money, to sell the car and to spend much time to complete Aiko. Now, he was looking for the sponsor so that Aiko increasingly great his capacity

Just was not pretty his shape, Aiko was indeed supplied by various capacities. For example, Aiko could speak England and Japan as well as did the matter of mathematics.


"Aiko was the blend" of "knowledge and beauty." I wanted to make him resemble possibly humankind so as to be able to be the perfect couple, said Trung that dilansor Telegraph and was quoted detikINET

Trung claimed that Aiko could understand and say 13,000 sentences in English and Japan.

"Aiko knew the face and said hello if having my family's member who visited." He also helped me to choose to eat dinner and knew whether the drink of my pleasure, added Trung.

As the robot, Aiko certainly did not know words to be tired and could the activity for the length of time. That was the reason Trung dared to say that Aiko was the couple who was perfect for him.

Japan marketed the most New Robot

Three new discoveries were in the technological field launched by Japan Society in New York, the United States, just recently. Technology that was launched from the robot to the future car that could operate in the vertical position and horizontal.

The robot Chroino the Tomotaka Takahashi work received the first opportunity to show his ability. The black robot be as high as 30 centimetre that could move lentur was proper for the movement of humankind. Therefore, Chroino was named the robot humanoid. Not only that, Takahashi put forward FT namely the section's well-off robot melenggok was proper for the model in catwalk.

In the exhibition was put also forward by the vehicle futuristik was named I-Unit. The vehicle have a capacity single this could be operated on in two methods. Firstly, I-Unit was driven with the vertical position when following the low speed. This vehicle could also progress in the horizontal position when following the high speed.


Was different from Chroino, FT, and I-Unit that not yet will be thrown to the market, Paro or the robot of the sea puppy was ready to be had by them who were interested. The robot who reacted to the voice and the touch this was sold with the price US$ 3,000 or around Rp 27 million. Apart from as kept, Takanori Shibata said the robot produced by his creation same could be used as therapy aids in the hospital and the old people's home.

The " Heart Robot ", the Funny Robot and Annoy

A robot really enjoyed when being embraced by a small child, the funny robot and annoyed. This robot was named Heart Robot, that was the first robot to indicate the new era from one ‘emotional machine’, that was used for the medical maintenance and entertainment.

David McGoran, the creator Heart the Robot from the University of The West of England, terinspirasi from the puppet, so as his side made the creation of the robot's machine help the robot to be able to adopt the characteristics of humankind.McGoran added, Heart Robot had ‘heart’ was red like throbing light, that emerged from his left-hand chest when the body collapsed digooyang, but will come back faded when being treated softly. Moreover, Heart Robot also had the eyes that could blink when responding to the touch response.

Heart Robot was similar like the doll toy, and was one of the robots who could express the emotional side of humankind. McGoran added that many profits that could be obtained, like for the medical maintenance someone. Heart Robot this also was exhibited in London Science Museum till July 31. Not only Heart Robot, but also Insect Robot, the robot who could be climbing the wall.

Like the robot “ic Hexapod” that was made, also be present by Micromagic Systems this museum, that has deprogram to detect fitur the face of humankind and could follow the movement of humankind. Like Heart Robot, the robot who was exhibited in this museum gave the surplus, where the robot was the machine that could detect the face and the behaviour of humankind.

The Soldier Robot Made in Amerika the price 50 Trillion !!!!!

The troops's robot

Increasingly the length of the row of the soldier Uncle Sam that his life drifted in the battlefield or experienced the mental crisis strengthened the United States determination in making troops super-strong. Could not die or depression. His choice filled up the line skuad their future military with the soldier's robot in the style of The Terminator, the killing robot of the Hollywood invention.

The country Uncle Sam serious with the project that ditarget complete in this 2010. Therefore, they not love Gave the fund that was estimated finished USD 4 billion (around Rp 51.5 trillion) this.

To bring about this ambition, the Pentagon took the expert by the hand robotika England to draft the implement a kind indra the obedience to the robots so that at random did not break through the war rule that was determined by the Geneva Conference.

The question that wanted to be answered was whether we could create the automatic weapon machine that was obedient in the war rule? Well-off was used by us the theory of ethics to help designed this machine, said Colin Allen, the scientific expert from Indiana University, to The Telegraph.

The researcher was drafting one software as the movement escort of the robots. A system that could analyse personally when beginning to be acting, distinguishing the enemy's troops in a civilian manner, or distinguishing the steel tank from the ambulance. Did not forget, the Geneva Convention rule was slipped in this computer memory as the escort of the soldier's ethics into the battlefield

The profit of the soldier's robot, according to Ronald Arkin, the computer scientist from Georgian Tech University, was to need not protect himself and to be not angry or frustrated when was continually in the battlefield. That be different from that was felt by the US soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Criticism came from the computer expert from Sheffield University, Noel Sharkey. He mengatakan,''Tulang belulang I shivered. I have wrought as the intelligence agent during berpuluh the year, but the idea of the robot of replacing the role of the humankind was really horrifying.

The Robot's contest as the Intelligence Icon, the Innovation, and Creativity

The contest of Robot Indonesia (KRI) and the Contest of Robot Cerdas Indonesia (KRCI) 2008 could become the intelligence icon, the innovation, and the student's creativity. His indicator was seen from how many students could carry out the simulation visioner in accordance with the talent, the interest, and his potential. Was like this it was said Director General Pendidikan Tinggi Departemen of Nasional Education (the Director General Dikti Depdiknas) Fasli Jalal in the KRI press conference agenda and KRCI 2008 in the Informasi Counter and the Media, Depdiknas, Jakarta, on Monday (9/06/2008). Be present at Director's agenda the Research and the Service to the Community (Dir P2M) Director General Dikti Mochammad Munir, the expert KRI Wahidin Wahab, and the expert KRCI Mulyo Widodo.

Fasli said, the student was important capital that must be facilitated by the capacity, the potential, and his ideas. Moreover, must be ascertained that the not stopped student got the opportunity inside pembelajaran. "We increasingly facilitated the idea expansion as illegally as possible the student." People say thought out of the box, he said.

KRI and KRCI 2008 was held by P2M Director General Dikti Directorate co-operated with the institution that was appointed as the executive. In 2008, the contest was divided into two stages. The first stage was the regional contest that was divided into four territories that is, Pekanbaru, the Special Capital District of Jakarta, DI Yogyakarta, and Surabaya. The second stage was the national contest that will be held in the Campus of the Indonesian University on June 14-15 2008.

Wahidin delivered, in the regional KRI stage 2008 was chosen by 24 teams from 24 tertiary institutions, whereas KRCI 2008 was chosen by 37 teams. He said, the KRI theme 2008 was GOVINDA, that is the traditional ceremony in India that depicted children co-operated helped each other to climb onto shoulders to take the object in the certain height. "If in Indonesia like panjat betel nuts," he said. According to him, this theme diselaraskan with the international contest of ROBOCON ASH of the level robot 2008 that will take place in Pune, India on August 31 2008.

Mulyo said, to KRCI 2008 will compare the fire extinguisher robot. Respectively participants will be pitted by the speed and his reliability in look for and extinguishing fire. His mission was to rescue the baby in a building. He mentioned, KRCI 2008 was divided into four divisions that is, senior the robot beroda, senior the robot leant, expert the robot single, and expert the robot swarm.

Fasli hoped, from the site of KRI/KRCI 2008 will produce the idea that had the opportunity to be patented, good that was found by the student or that co-operated with his guide's lecturer. The government, said he, would mendanai results of this patent to dikerjasamakan with the industry. "Also was blockgrant to that his product was potential for the patent." Given by us the fund, so as to be able to become thin to the Department of the Law and human rights, he said

The source: the News Gate of Education

The New robot Motoman from Yaskawa Electric`s

The New robot Motoman from Yaskawa Electric`s

The Motoman company found the new system implement for the machine robot and received information that is said will cut off the price of the factory for his client
Motoman, that made the metal robot and the automative robot perfect for almost each application and the industry, continually was received the share market, in accordance with the company. Current was the provider of the solution to the biggest robot in the USA the northern part and South, with the robot's more than 29,000 installations that were the branch from Japan under Yaskawa Electric Corp, one in the world from the manufacturer of the robot with menginstall more than 200,000 robots. Motoman had 350 officials in West Carrollton and Troy.

Nexi, Robot smart mimic the expression of the human face

Try the mirror learner. Keep smile. Now make your face as a people. example is also surprised people face. Can we?

So, what if the robots do that?

Hm .., there you with robots that can mimic expressions such as the human face?

There.

Nexi name. This smart robots mimic human face eskpresi. It can be seen resentful, angry, sad, happy, and other expressions.

Face Nexi made such as human faces. Nexi have eyebrows, eyelid, eyeball, nose, and mouth, of course. Nexi use all parts of the face, to show that the expression "in its taste." Wonderful!!! Glittering, in his forehead are a small camera to record the circumstances surrounding

In addition to forge smart and show the face of various expressions, Nexi can also perform some other brains. Nexi able to manipulate both hands. He can lift objects weighing up to about 5 kilograms.

To move, Nexi use the wheel. Although not yet equipped with the ability to run using two legs, like the ASIMO, Nexi already skittish to move anywhere.

Wonderful!!! Glittering, Nexi made by experts from the robots MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). For the head, they make cooperation with experts from Xitome Design. Meanwhile, parts of the body, done in cooperation with the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics UMASS Amherst.

Robot Flame, like Human Walking

A robot developed at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Netherlands can be run similar to humans. Cradle of step again because of rigid swing techniques that use controlled overthrow the burden to the future.
Robot Flame, like Human Walking

"By adopting this method, robots are usually run with a rigid plan and be more elegant and efficient as people move," said Daan Hobbelen, head of the team that developed.

Robot given the name Flame has the weight of 15 kilograms and 1.3 meters high. He has a number of joint at the foot pedal manageable. Meanwhile, a sensor called inersia help balance the body's organs to remain stable. All seven supported the motor.

When running, swinging his feet while alternately organs penyeimbang step will be to measure the distance to not drop. With techniques such as running human, Flame can walk with 0.45 meter speed perdetik.

Hobbelen sure Flame is a two-legged robots with the most advanced at this time. How menir human steps have been organized very well. The technology can later be used to replace the peg leg of the tuna so skilled can run in a more natural foot as the original.

Micro-Robot Capable of Working In The Body

Korean scientists have created the robots that are small enough to explore the human body and driven by the heart muscle.

Sukho Park at Chonnam National University, Korea, and colleagues have designed a micro-robots driven by the cell. Park team to make the robot with the heart muscle to grow the network from a mouse on the small-frame robots are made from polidimetilsiloksana (PDMS). PDMS is a polymer biokompatibel makes robots used in the appropriate application biomedik.

A special on robots this, Park said, is they do not require an external energy supply. But the cells of the heart muscle relaxation and contraction learner who provide energy. Muscle cells get the energy own heart from a glucose culture medium. Cells that beat themselves, allowing the robot moves six feet.

This robot has three short front legs (400 micrometer long) and three feet behind the longer (1200 micrometer long), all mounted on a body segiempat. At the heart cells learner contraction, the back legs longer bend into. This difference in friction between the front foot and back foot, pressing the robot move forward. The researchers measure the average speed of robots is about 100 micrometer per second.

Park said that robots like this crab can be used in the body cavity to clean up or clog the vessel, with a release agent solvent to clean the stoppage of them.

Devinisi of Robots

Robot is a mechanical instrument that can perform physical tasks, using both human supervision and control, or use a program that has been defined first (artificial intelligence). Robots are used for tasks that heavy, dangerous, the work repeated and dirty. Usually, most industrial robots used in production. Including the use of other robots to clean toxic waste, crawl under the water and space, mining, the work of "search and please" (search and rescue), and search for mines. Later this robot began entering the consumer market in the field of entertainment, and household auxiliaries, such as vacuum cleaner, and cutting grass.

Robots have a variety of construction. Among them are:

* Mobile Robot (move)
* Robot manipulator (hand)
* Humanoid Robot
* Flying Robot
* Legged Robot
* Robot network