MIT Technology Review - surgical robots en The Year in Robotics <p>Advances in robotics for personal assistance, medicine, and the military in 2008.</p><p>Robotic research marched ahead this year: biomedical robots performed less invasive and more complex experimental surgeries, winged robots copied each other to perform potential military maneuvers, and researchers began work on robots that may even be able to travel through the blood to zap a tumor. Some highlights:<br /></p> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 411524 at Building a Self-Assembling Stomach-Bot <p>Modules that self-assemble inside the stomach could perform more-sophisticated diagnosis and treatment.</p><p>Doctors have long sought better ways to examine the workings of the human body without having to cut their patients open. A swallowable camera, little bigger than a normal pill, can already snap pictures as it floats through the stomach and intestine, offering a less invasive way to perform diagnosis than an endoscope or surgery. Now a consortium of European researchers is testing a way to connect several swallowable devices to create a surgical “robot” that would self-assemble inside the stomach.</p> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 410857 at