Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for November 28, 2019 (Thanksgiving edition)
A robot prototype that's designed to improve microsurgery for things like eyes and aneurisms; An AI start-up that aims to upend radiology; An argument that bitcoin is the key to ethical AI; While Facebook is removing record amounts of "hate speech", for many languages, the process still depends on human reporting; and a Steem post announcing a new waivio.com feature to add images to hashtags
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- Robot prototype shows promise for microsurgery on eyes and aneurysms - A new robot by Nabil Simaan and his team offers the ability to perform both macro-motions (large scale motions) and micro-motions (small scale motions) on the order of one micron or less. For context, a micron is 1/25,400 of an inch. According to the article, "The miniaturization and range of motion would allow precise control during procedures on complex aneurysms, tiny veins and arteries, nerves and the delicate structures of the eye, the inner ear and the vocal cords." Simaan terms the robots, continuum robots with equilibrium modulation (CREM). Previous continuum robots use worm-like motion to achieve macro-motion, but this variant adds micro-motion through the addition of inexpensive actuators. Wires can modulate the equilibrium state by sliding in and out of the robot's tube-shaped backbone. Testing is also under way to enable a sort of "optical ultrasound" to do imaging from within the tissue.
Here is a video (you may want to turn on closed-captioning due to the audio quality):
Happy Thanksgiving!
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