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Back in the operating room, Michler prepares for the first incision--a small round hole through which the robotic arm will enter the left side of Oaks' chest. First goes the camera, then the miniature forceps and finally a tool called a cautery, which will be used to isolate the artery that the surgeons plan to attach to the heart to restore proper blood flow. As Michler steps back, the robot springs to life. Looking like the legs of an oversize metallic spider, the long black arms start to gyrate--both outside and deep inside the patient's body...
...This robot--a da Vinci model made by Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, Calif.--doesn't exactly have a mind of its own. About 15 ft. away from the operating table, Dr. Randall Wolf sits hunched over a console that looks as if it came straight out of a video-game arcade. Instead of blasting imaginary bad guys, Wolf is peering into a 3-D display that gives him a surprisingly clear view, magnified up to 10 times, inside the patient's chest. He can see the top of the beating heart, the bulge of every rib and the outline...
...truly incorporate prosthetics into its body map requires feedback: the brain will only become aware of its new limbs if they make their presence known. To see how the monkeys might respond to this kind of anatomical extension, Nicolelis is creating a feedback loop between the monkeys and the robotic arm. In the next experiments the monkeys will have sensors attached to their bodies, so that the robotic arm delivers tactile sensations directly to their skin. When the monkey's brain waves impel the robotic arm to grasp a piece of fruit, for example, the animal will be able...
...brutal summer heat by bedding down on their roofs between midnight and 4 a.m. It scratches its victims and bounds out of sight into the darkness. Some say it's a monster with a black monkey face and human legs, possibly with coil springs on its feet. Or a robot invader with steel claws. Just possibly, the marauder is a half-human spy in an iron mask from neighboring Pakistan sent to destabilize the Indian capital...
...COMIC POTENTIAL Alan Ayckbourn, a British delicacy long underappreciated in the U.S., gets treated right in this deft off-Broadway production of his London hit. Janie Dee is brilliant as a robot actor of the future, in a comedy whose laughs are more than skin deep...