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Since CyberKnife was first approved in 1999 for tumor treatment, it has been used in some 40,000 cases, and demand is growing. "We're getting a lot of patients who are self-referring for treatment," says Dr. Euan Thomson, Accuray's CEO. "They're finding out about it through...
CyberKnife has its limitations. It cannot be used to treat blood-borne cancers, and because it is a local therapy, it cannot be used alone to treat metastatic disease?when the cancer has spread to involve not only the original area, but other organs or tissues as well. It can...
The first thing Jose Halloy wants you to know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It's true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and several other European institutions have created a set of tiny robotic...
The collision--which was more of a love tap, since the Rover was going less than 10 m.p.h. (16 km/h)--took place in a very unusual road race on a dismantled Air Force base in Victorville, Calif. A few years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's...
Although some of the interest in robotic vehicles comes from car companies eager to reduce traffic fatalities, it's the military that's really driving this research. The appeal is obvious: How many lives will be saved once the convoys in Iraq are unmanned? It's not as unrealistic as...