swallowable surgical robots

from The Washington Post Robots May Allow Surgery in Space Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space. The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case, can be slipped into small incisions and […]

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NYT piece on “life hacking”

from New York Times Meet the Life Hackers By CLIVE THOMPSON Published: October 16, 2005 In 2000, Gloria Mark was hired as a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Until then, she was working as a researcher, living a life of comparative peace. She would spend her days in her lab, enjoying the […]

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functional exoskeletons coming soon?

via Spectrum IEEE Rise of the Body Bots .. Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories. But don’t look for these remarkable new systems to bust bricks or spew lightning. The very first commercially available exoskeleton, scheduled to hit the market in […]

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rise of “synthetic biologists”

Researchers creating life from scratch – Science – MSNBC.com They’re called “synthetic biologists” and they boldly claim the ability to make never-before-seen living things, one genetic molecule at a time. They’re mixing, matching and stacking DNA’s chemical components like microscopic Lego blocks in an effort to make biologically based computers, medicines and alternative energy sources. […]

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