Autonomous Doctor Bot Practices on Turkey
Duke University researchers are working on an autonomous robot that can take biopsies on humans based on ultrasounds. Using a turkey as the guinea pig because their flesh is similar to humans, they claim that the robot guided its plunger correctly to eight different locations 93% of the time without human intervention. We guess its that 7% that will keep the practice in the experimental stage a while longer.
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Posted by Sheila Franklin at July 29, 2010 9:10 PM
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