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Robotic-assisted Surgery Reaches 10-year Milestone

Robotic-assisted surgery – while still in growing stages – shows a bright future for patients, doctors and hospitals embracing this advanced technology, say local and national experts studying this surgical evolution having roots in South County Hospital. Wakefield’s...

Tiny Robots and Sensors Need Tiny Batteries

Computers, sensors and robots as small as a grain of salt are being developed that can move around, detect light, sound, pressure, chemicals and magnetic fields. Less than a millimetre across and a few hundred micrometres thick, they process information and...

Fish Robots Form Schools Like the Real Thing

Seven little bluebots gently swim around a darkened tank in a Harvard University lab, spying on one another with great big eyes made of cameras. They’re on the lookout for the two glowing blue LEDs fixed to the backs and bellies of their comrades, allowing the...

Best Driving Tech from CES 2021

CNET’s Brian Cooley reports from the Virtual CES 2021: The scuttlebutt going into CES2021 was that it would be pretty tepid as a car show, but I think it delivered, considering it was all done on a virtual showfloor. Caterpillar showed one of its 285-ton mining...