Google’s driverless car drivers ride a career less traveled
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Fresh out of college, Brian Torcellini dreamed about getting a job writing about surfing. Instead, he wound up in a dusty, dimly lit garage near Google’s Silicon…
Robotics
‘BIONIC MAN’ WALKS, BREATHES WITH ARTIFICIAL PARTS
By BARBARA ORTUTAY In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo provided by Showtime, Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist for the University of Zurich, poses for a photo in New York.…
SILICON VALLEY KEENLY AWAITS LATEST LEGO ROBOT KIT
By MARTHA MENDOZA In this Aug. 14, 2013, photo, children look at a computer presentation on how to assemble Lego parts during a Digital Media Academy workshop in Stanford, Calif.…
SHOULD YOU HAVE ROBOTIC SURGERY? PL– USES, MIN– USES
By LINDSEY TANNER In this March 22, 2013 photo, Dr. Pier Giulianotti, chief of minimally invasive and robotic surgery at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in…
OB/GYNS TOLD ROBOT HYSTERECTOMY NOT BEST OPTION
By LAURAN NEERGAARD FILE – This Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo shows the da Vinci Surgical Robot at a hospital in Pittsburgh. Pricey robotic surgery shouldn’t be the first…