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.


September 30, 2010
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Force Feedback Helps Doctors Poke Patients With Robots

A popular method of adding more immersion to video games could make a life or death difference to doctors using robotic proxies to perform delicate surgery.