surgery
In Real Life

New Surgical Special Effects Are All Smoke And Bloody Mirrors

Realistic rendering of smoke and blood isn’t just a game developer problem. Engineers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have come up with a novel way to give surgical students the virtual blood and gore they need.

19 January 2011

In Real Life

Kinect Hacked To Perform Surgery

We’ve seen the Xbox 360 Kinect control robots before, but never robots with tasks this important. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft’s device to guide the actions of surgical robots.

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