Advanced tank guides way to future: new concepts being developed for the military may improve motorway safety at one extreme or help surgeons performing the most delicate operations at the other
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New tele-robotic controls for military vehicles closely follow the concepts developed for computer games, and also have potential for the automotive industry or machines where human interface is strong. This could involve surgeons performing micro-invasive brain surgery. A project known as Mobile Advanced Robotic Defence Initiative (MARDI) is seeking ways of operating a Streaker variant of the Scorpion light tank by remote control using a military radio link.
Publication Name: Eureka
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0261-2097
Year: 1995
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Low cost actuators work high tech aeroplane
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An aeronautics team at Cranfield Institute of Technology, England has developed a robotic aeroplane controlled by electric servos. Computer testing of control strategies facilitated development. The robotic aircraft has greater stability than manned aircraft. Mass production could achieve machine costs of 20,000 pounds sterling. Actuators cost only 55 pounds. Possible applications include military surveillance, traffic monitoring or agricultural spraying.
Publication Name: Eureka
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0261-2097
Year: 1993
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Robots help surgeons extend the possible: new robotic techniques enabling surgeons to perform previously impossible procedures, look set to influence precision tasks in industry
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Medical robots developed by Armstrong Projects have gained the company awards in 1992, 93 and 94. The company's robotic platform can hold a cannula or drill guide to enable the surgeon to drill a bone fixator pilot hole in the right place and direction. It has also developed the Selective Compliance Articulation Robot for Assembly (SCARA), an arm that can perform surgery, and a machine that can pick up a patient from a bed and transport them.
Publication Name: Eureka
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0261-2097
Year: 1995
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