The robot has seven axes of motion, to enable all possible angles, but remains compact, low-weight and accurate. To devise the robot arm, TU/e PhD student Jordan Bos visited twenty skull base ...

A soft robot inserted through a hole in the skull can deploy six sensor-filled legs on the surface of the brain to monitor electrical activity. The design has been tested in miniature pigs and ...

The University of Utah has developed an automated drill for cranial surgery. It can cut an opening in the skull in just 2.5 minutes. That's a massive 50x faster than a human surgeon.

Indeed, Weber’s research had a laser focus: he and his team created a robot perfectly designed to drill a very thin tunnel into a human skull. In theory, their robot could be applied to other ...

One trope shared among all the fictional depictions of a futuristic robot uprising is the idea that, because we’ve taught robots so much about how humans function, … ...

A new drilling robot built at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) ... Automated skull-drilling robot to make cranial surgery safer, faster and cheaper By Nick Lavars.

When someone invents a robot specifically made to drill into the skulls of unconscious, immobile humans, you'd be forgiven for feeling a natural reaction along the lines of "for the love of God, why?" ...

Robot designed to drill holes in human SKULLS could help deaf people hear again The little 'bot has been designed to drill small bores in a human skull to help with surgical implants Comments ...

Lot 99: The skull of a triceratops Hell Creek formation, Montana From the Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous (68-65 Mya), the skull of a Triceratops prorsus , mounted on stand. Estimate: £150,000 ...

A drill-wielding robot that bores into your skull for a quick spot of impromptu brain surgery sounds like a scene from a future sci-fi dystopia, in which AI treats Earth’s surviving humans like ...