Armed Robot

Male fiddler crabs have one dramatically larger claw that they use during mating rituals and to fight rivals. Credit: Joe Wilde Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A tiny robot fiddler crab is helping environmental scientists better understand the complexities of animal…

An AI-trained surgical robot that can make a few stitches on its own is a small step toward systems that can aid surgeons with such repetitive tasks. A video taken by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, shows the two-armed robot completing six stitches in a row on a…

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Robotic surgery, also called robot-assisted surgery, is a promising direction to improve surgeons’ and assistants’ daily life with respect to conventional surgery. Researchers at Switzerland’s EPFL research institute have developed the first system that enables four-arm laparoscopic surgery by controlling two additional robotic arms via haptic foot interfaces. The system…

San Francisco’s police will be allowed to use remote-controlled robots to kill suspects. The city’s board of supervisors last night approved a controversial policy that lets police robots “be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent…

It is Health Season in The Irish Times. In print and online, we will be offering encouragement and inspiration to help us all improve our physical and mental health in 2022. See irishtimes.com/health “I think I always presumed I’d be a dad,” says Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher…

The COVID-19 virus. Photo by iStockphoto /Getty Images The province announced another pandemic-high for Albertans in hospital with COVID-19 on Friday as an additional 13 deaths were reported. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. There are now 1,496 people in hospital with the virus,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The coming weeks should bring a new phase in the pandemic, as policy shifts and a supply of up to a billion free, government-issued rapid test kits for home use promise to make diagnosing COVID-19 at home cheaper and easier. Vaccines are the most effective way…

COVID has changed the way we live so Noelle is updating the way we self-care. We’re spending a lot more time working from home which can make it tough to switch off. Top that off with the stresses of living in a pandemic and you have yourself a recipe for…

What would it feel like having to risk your life in the midst of a pandemic to provide care for pregnant women? The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll on the lives of health workers worldwide. Healthcare workers have to adjust to the daily stress of caring for clients,…