A humanoid robot, controlled remotely by a human surgeon, performed laparoscopic gallbladder removal in pigs — which revealed key insights for future optimization and clinical translation.
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Imperial College London hosted the NVIDIA UK Physical AI & Robotics Roundtable on Tuesday, June 9, positioning the event as a key component of London Tech Week and a focal point for the future of robotics. Co-chaired by Kanishka Narayan, Minister for AI and Online Safety, and Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Physical AI Simulation…
Back to Article List Observers and imagers live for comets. Here are the top 20 from the past quarter-century. Comet 2006 P1 (McNaught) was a truly spectacular sight throughout the Southern Hemisphere. This image, taken from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile in January 2007, shows the comet and a crescent Moon over…
MOSCOW — A U.S.-Russian space crew arrived Tuesday at the International Space Station after launching from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off as scheduled at 7:47 p.m. (10:47 a.m. EDT, 1447 GMT) aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 for an eight-month stint…
Yesterday, Science and Technology Daily, a state-backed media outlet in China, published what could have been an exciting piece of news: Researchers recorded radio signals that looked like evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Rogue blips from an advanced alien civilization made their way to Earth? Well, probably not, because the twist here isn’t that we may…