Tag: Robotics

• 11.14.07

  Red Whittaker: Roboticist

  Winning the Robot Race William “Red” Whittaker remembers thinking about his future career as a young boy.  His interests lay in science and technology, but he wanted to enter a field that had yet to reach its full potential. Whittaker al

• 10.29.07

  Ziya Goes To NextFest

  WIRED Science Intrepid Correspondent Finds the Future at WIRED's Annual Tech Expo It's a combination world's fair, technology convention, and geek party: every year, Wired magazine hosts Nextfest, where innovators from around the world show off some of t

• 9.27.07

  Remote-Controlled Robot Surgery

  Doctors May Soon Operate From Miles Away Never mind RoboCop; the future belongs to RoboDoc. Sophisticated robots are already performing surgery in operating rooms around the world -- and may soon be saving lives on battlefields, underwater and in outer

• 9.17.07

  RoboDoc

  Robot Surgeons are Fully Operational If you're getting surgery these days, chances are good the scalpel will be wielded by a doctor with nerves of steel - literally. Across the country, a growing number of operations are now performed with the help of ro