Tag: DAVINCI

Doctors at McGill University Health Center in Montreal have performed the first ever robot-assisted surgery on a patient, without any direct doctor-to-patient contact. Of course, robotic surgery isn't a new approach in medicine, and, no, these 'bots aren't autonomous. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and Dr. Armin Aprikian controlled robots named McSleepy and DaVinci, as they administered anesthesia and ...

Leonardo Da Vinci is well known for his incredibly intricate and prophetically futuristic designs, including a legendary helicopter and blueprints for a self-propelled cart. It has only taken 500 years for someone to finally reproduce a working model of one of his most mysterious automatons (mechanized robots). Although specific plans were never found in any of Da Vinci's works, eyewitness ...

Oh boy, from the looks of that picture, the only perquisites for using the updated da Vinci Si surgical system are video game skills, a preference for interacting with the physical world on a high-def display, and an abnormal interest in robots. Sound like anyone you know? Intuitive Surgical's latest robotic system features two separate HD optical channels that the manufacturer claims will give ...

We all know the dream of the practical flying car hasn't exactly come to fruition, despite a few one-off prototypes showing some level of promise. And, while jet wing backpacks look like fun, they seem a little too extreme for most. So, perhaps our future transportation needs really lie in backpack helicopters like the GEN H-4, a personal copter set to be flown over the birthplace of Leonardo ...