By adkoill on October 4, 2010
Until now, all other artificial heart transplants were just temporary relief. A 15 year old boy from Italy became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart, due to the Duchenne syndrome which was wasting his muscles away. It was this syndrome which meant he couldn’t receive a heart transplant, causing doctors in Rome to insert [...]
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By adkoill on September 21, 2010
What’s nearly two meters tall, weighs 230kg, and can lift the equivalent of a generously proportioned man? No, it isn’t the ED-209 from RoboCop, but rather the latest robotic biped from Japan. The Core project that’s being developed by the fuRo lab in Chiba’s Institute of Technology may look and sound quite a bit like your favorite rogue [...]
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