NEWS: Kinect-aided surgery now a possibility
Students and doctors at the University of Washington have hacked (adapted, if you will) the Kinect for surgical robotics. Yup, what could have been a $ 50,000 endeavor was sliced to a fraction of the cost, thanks to Microsoft’s latest gaming peripheral. Fredrik Ryden, an electrical engineering graduate from UW, is the brains behind the operation. He said that essentially, Microsoft had already …
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The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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