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This article is good and interesting because it talks about what surgeons go through to become proficient in using surgical robotics. The surgeons and the nurses have to learn to use visual cues when performing these surgeries since they do not have any tactile sensations. In the training it is all team oriented just like it would be in real surgeries.

17. What advantages are there to having a design team with members that have non-engineering backgrounds?

Allen, Paul G., and Mark Greaves. "The Singularity Isn't Near." MIT Technology Review 12 Oct. 2011: n. pag. Rpt. in Robotic Technology. Ed. Louise Gerdes. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2014. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. .

Noel Sharkey has warned us that “the widespread availability of service robots has resulted from several developments that allowed robots to become mobile, interactive machines” (Sharkey 358). Robots have become a necessity for people today rather than just for science fiction or manufacturing processes, but lately we wonder whether or not if it’s safe to put our faith in the hands of cold machinery. Today, robots have been known to provide care for our children and the perhaps even the elderly. They even provide service to our men in combat. However, it doesn’t change the fact that there are those who feel

The history of military robotics dates back to World War II and the Cold War. During those times of spying, weaponry and strategic attacks, these robots were in the form of Germany’s type of robotics and Russian weaponry called “teletanks”.

The presence of a dive response in humans when the face is submerged in water was studied. A lot of mammals have shown to exhibit a dive response known as the mammalian dive reflex. During this reflex bradycardia, a slowing of the heart rate, is shown. In this study, human subjects were put through various tests to determine if humans also exhibit bradycardia. Subject's heart rates were measured while breathing normally, while holding breath and while holding breath with face submerged in water. The results showed that there was a significant decrease in heart rate while submerged in water as compared to normal breathing or holding breath out of water. Many other studies have been done that agree with the results found in

Big companies like “Google” are signing a 60 year, $1.16 billion lease Moffett Naval Airfield in San Francisco the historic Hangar One as part of its expansion into robotics, aviation and space exploration. Kyrre Glette, Associate Professor at Oslo University’s Department of Informatics states “In the future, robots must be able to solve tasks in deep mines on distant planets, in radioactive disaster areas, in hazardous landslip areas and on the sea bed beneath the Antarctic. These environments are so extreme that no human being can cope. Everything needs to be automatically controlled. For an example a robot is entering the wreckage of a nuclear power plant. It finds a staircase that no-one has thought of. The robot takes a picture. The picture is analyzed. The arms of one of the robots is fitted with a printer. This produces a new robot, or a new part for the existing robot, which enables it to negotiate the stairs.” This is the primary example of what the future could hold with robotic technology.

In order to avoid accidently meddling with the robot while retaining some semblance of usefulness, I created a technical journal, a written documentation of the team’s thought process to be judged in competition. I detailed revisions, prototypes, and organized data. A heavy binder of sketches emerged, full of research, thoroughly-explained trail-and-error, and reasoning .

I was fascinated by the system’s ability to expertly control equipment remotely using robotic manipulators and control systems – it beautifully melds medicine and robotics. I became captivated by the new technologies coming out of the biomedical engineering community. Robotic prosthetics, 3D surgical simulations and medical imaging united my interest in human biomechanics with my passion for robotics and

The Da Vinci Surgical System is a large purpose-built robot controlled by a surgeon that performs minimally invasive surgical procedures on patients. The system incorporates an ergonomically designed surgeon's console, a patient-side module with four interactive robotic arms, each with interchangeable surgical instruments and a 3-dimensional endoscopic vision system. Powered by high-tech supercomputers, the surgeon's hand movements are scaled, filtered and then converted into precise movements of the surgical attachments. The designers of the system are a team of doctors, engineers and biomedical engineers at a company called Intuitive Surgical.

Introduction: For years robotic technology has depicted fictional humanoid robots in movies and television, consequently peaking our imagination of artificial life forms. No longer are humanoid robots fiction, but reality as roboticists have been developing them not only with an appearance based on a human body but with humanlike sensory and movements. Moreover, humanoid robots are performing human tasks from industrial to service jobs and can survive in any kind of environment. The advancement of robotic research involves the fields of science, cognitive science, programming and engineering (Cheng). Some people consider humanoid robots a threatening force because they feel they are not safe, they will take over our jobs, or are uncomfortable with their

Unlike even the most advanced probes and robots, we are versatile, and excel at on-the-spot decision making. Dr. Francis Slaykey, on his Scientific American article, “Robots vs. Humans: Who Should Explore Space?” argues that this versatility and adaptability we have is what allows us to install and maintain complex scientific instruments in space, like the Hubble Space Telescope, and conduct field exploration. These skills are even more important when important and complex equipment breaks down. In several occasions, like when the Skylab has

The robotic age is upon us and how robots will impact our lives in 50 years is still yet to be determined, even though some intentional instances are starting to become apparent and clear. This has positive and negative repercussions and the impacts that we foresee are monumental, especially once it becomes affordable to the mainstream public. Robots may impact humanity in many ways and on many levels; health, social, disaster relief and space exploration are amongst many of the areas that benefit from robotics. Military is clearly the number one technological motivator in robotics, how that technology eventually applies to the benefit of society remains to be explored. The exploratory approach taken for this assignment entails observing what

The author’s tone is very much informative, to which makes every sentence read like a text from an educational textbook. As example in paragraph (10) that describes Baxter a factory working robot, as the paragraph goes in simple details on Baxter’s functions and appearance. This brief overview gives the reader great easy digestible information on the current factor robots without sounding to confusing. The informative tone continues on paragraph (6) as the section focus on robot researcher McLurkin's interesting small insect-like robots capabilities, which

According to the Springer Handbook of Robotics, since the mid 1980s the growth of medical robots has significantly, and strikingly increased. Robotic surgery, also called robot assisted surgery, is using robotic surgical devices to allow a surgeon at a console to operate remote-controlled robotic arms which facilitate the performance of procedures (Barbash). These robots are classified by manipulator design, level of autonomy, targeted anatomy or technique and intended operating environment (Siciliano). Medical robots can be thought of as information-driven surgical tools that enable human surgeons to treat patients with greater safety, improved efficacy, and reduced morbidity than possible by humans alone.