We've already started to see how useful robots can truly be. They assemble products and take surveillance photos and vacuum floors, and in the near future they'll play a bigger ...

When he was a child, Kinova's co-founder and CEO Charles Deguire used to spend his summer vacations with his family in the beautiful region of Gaspesie in Quebec, Canada. Among ...

Recent medical innovations seem so futuristic that some would call them miracles. From paralyzed patients controlling robotic arms to researchers who grow new body parts, the medical world is fast ...

On this week's Futureproof, Jonathan spoke with Easton LaChappelle, a 17 year old maker from Colorado. At age 14, Easton built a robotic arm using Lego, fishing wire, some surgical ...

While it's undoubtedly true that opening than can of tinned peaches you yearn for would have been practically impossible without your opposable thumb, it turns out that there are other ...

A successful test of FITSAT-1's LED optical beacon took place over Japan on Dec. 11."All functions of FITSAT-1 are sound and work very well," said Takushi Tanaka, leader of the ...

Although it is impossible to function like a robot, some steps can be taken to ensure that you can keep up this important information. Would it be nice if you ...

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) is part of the European Commission's Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research programme. FET's goal is to promote long-term research and lay foundations of radically ...

On Tuesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the next stage in an ambitious project called Phoenix, which it hopes will bring about the first demonstration of robotic, ...

Robotic radical prostatectomy has become the "Gold Standard" treatment for localized prostate cancer. The introduction of robotic surgery to the treatment of prostate cancer has reduced the surgical morbidity of ...

It is also employed in surgical procedures like prostatectomy. Da Vinci surgical system is an advanced strategy utilized for surgical procedures that functions like a robot as well as the ...