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A robot has successfully performed autonomous abdominal surgery on a pig.Researchers at Johns Hopkins University reported the breakthrough on Wednesday in Science Daily News. The team has been programming its Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) for years; in 2018, the robot performed semi-autonomous laparoscopic surgery. This, however, is the first time the robot has successfully completed such an operation without

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has struck a deal to acquire Honeybee Robotics, a trailblazer in the business of building specialized tools for space probes. The deal with Honeybee’s parent organization, Ensign-Bickford Industries, is expected to close in mid-February. Financial terms were not disclosed. EBI has owned Honeybee since 2017. Honeybee said it would become a wholly owned…
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The news: A quiet Seattle digital health startup called Measure Labs is raising cash. A new regulatory filing shows $4.7 million raised. The company has not responded to inquiries from GeekWire. What we know: Measure Labs is linked to the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and is developing ways to measure patients’ vital signs remotely. It describes its product

Boston Dynamics is synonymous with four-legged robots, particularly its consumer model Spot. But in the past few years, the company has been expanding into logistics — one of the most challenging and potentially lucrative sectors in modern robotics.
Today, Boston Dynamics announced the first commercial purchase of its pallet-stacking machine Stretch, which will be starting try-outs in

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So long, Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets; hello, Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association!
The AV industry’s top lobbying group in Washington, DC is rebranding, dropping the reference to “self-driving” in exchange for a more straightforward moniker. The group, which was founded in 2016 by Waymo, Ford, Lyft, Uber, and Volvo,

Popular gaming and lifestyle brand Razer has partnered with sustainable shoe brand  Cariuma to release sneakers as part of its ‘Go Green’ initiative, specifically to help reach its goal of saving 1 million trees.Cariuma is a sneaker brand dedicated to only using sustainable materials, and maintaining ethical operations and manufacturing that have similar reforestation goals in mind; ideals that make

What if VR experiences weren’t constrained by the size of your play space?That’s a question users and developers alike have asked themselves as they’re forced to adapt to real-world limits – limits that prevent us from exploring endless virtual environments as if they were real.As such, it’s no wonder that VR peripheral creators have focused heavily on this area with

Proposed legal reforms would give U.K. self-driving car users immunity from offenses like dangerous driving, speeding and running red lights.