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Gateway Center's Green Roof Is Among County's First |
By Belle Waring |
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Testing the Future
STEP Forum Makes Robotic Medicine Come to Life |
By Sarah Schmelling |
It seemed more fantasy novel than symposium:
a paralyzed woman moves a circle on a monitor using only her thoughts, a robot assists in surgery, a student practices an operation on a simulated person and medics-in-training treat soldiers in a virtual version of the streets of Baghdad.
"But this is not science fiction. This is happening,"
said Dr. John Donoghue, director of the Brain Science Program at Brown University,
referring to just some of the technology described in a recent Staff Training in Extramural
Programs forum here. Yet, his statement
could be applied to all of the areas of research covered by the event titled, "Robotic Medicine: Dr. R2D2 Will See You Now." more…
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