Article: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarges trench in search of ice

Article: Robotic arm may revolutionize sinus surgery
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  January 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... medical community. The procedure uses a robotic arm and has helped people like Mark Hada ... Department with a voice-directed robotic arm. Obando and Dr. John Payne, general ... Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning) robotic arm. Hada, who works at the airport post ...

Article: Robotic Arm & IBM PC interface. (Amazing Science).
Poptronics;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... compatible) for OWI's popular Robotic Arm Trainer. The PC interface, see Fig. 1, allows one to control the Robotic Arm either interactively in real time ... few. Designing and building a robotic arm from scratch is a difficult project ...

Article: Speech-controlled robotic arm. (Amazing Science).
Poptronics;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... we built a PC interface for the OWI robotic arm. This month we will do one more project for the robotic arm, a speech-recognition interface ... speech-recognition circuit and the robotic arm. It allows one to control all the robotic ...

Article: Is the robotic arm a cost-effective tool?
AORN Journal;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... literature to determine * if use of the robotic arm eliminates the need for a human surgical ... operating time is reduced when using the robotic arm. TRADITIONAL LAPAROSCOPIC PROCEDURAL ... Drug Administration (FDA)-approved robotic arm received recognition.(7) Through ...

Article: Robotic arm combines radio, submarine technology. ...
National Petroleum News;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... responsible for creating Shell's pump. The robotic arm may also be changing the way major oil ... the signal and turn on the pumps. The robotic arm is simply, pardon the pun, an extension ... of the car altogether. Comparing the robotic arm to ATMs, officials with Trans Robotics ...

Article: MAKO Surgical Corp. Expands MAKOplasty[R] Partial Knee ...
Blood Weekly;  March 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... unveiled the next generation of its robotic arm system and implants used for MAKOplasty ... February 25- 28 in Las Vegas. The RIOO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System and the ... outcomes of MAKOplasty[R]." MAKO's robotic arm system is the first FDA-cleared robotic ...

Article: Astronauts test robotic arm on space station lab
AP Online;  June 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Monday flexed some of the muscles on a robotic arm attached to a new Japanese lab they ... orbiting outpost. The $1 billion lab's robotic arm got its first thorough checkout during ... its joints were moved. The 33-foot robotic arm was first moved on Saturday, but only ...