by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Engineers are working on robots that can carry out surgical procedures without the direct control of a surgeon, writes James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) for Knowable Magazine. Total autonomy may be a long ways off, however, given the vast biological complexity of the...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
In a four-part series for TechCrunch, Mark Harris (@meharris) delves into Nuro, an autonomous, unoccupied delivery vehicle startup. Our journey with Harris’ in-depth reporting begins at Google, where its founders once worked. Then, we travel through the thicket of...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Touch and grip, Jennifer Langston writes, is all about shear forces and small vibrations. University of Washington scientists and engineers are designing flexible, electronic skin that detects slipping over a surface or grasping an object, Jennifer writes in UW News....