Right after the surgical robots and bomb sniffing ferret, here’s a Duke University-developed robot that combines the facets of both to a degree of sorts. The laboratory robot is specially designed to sniff out pieces of metal within the human flesh and then to drive down a needle to the exact location without any external assistance, anytime. So, does this mean we have an autonomous robot ready to treat shrapnel injuries on the battlefields? Perhaps, for the developers hold an affirmative to that.
The tested table-top robot, with three axes moving ability, uses a new 3D ultrasound technology for the eyes, which with the bot’s embedded artificial intelligence guides its arms toward the found object and then gets it to pierce a needle through. This robot on completion surely has the potential to make it to the war zones alongside the other surgical robots that the military is employing.
Via: Eurekalert/TechRadar
