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Robot hand performs remote breast checks
New Scientist ^ | 6/5/06 | Will Knight

Posted on 06/07/2006 10:42:18 AM PDT by Millee

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1 posted on 06/07/2006 10:42:21 AM PDT by Millee
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Yeouch ping!


2 posted on 06/07/2006 10:43:29 AM PDT by Millee (Tancredo 08!)
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I'm no Luddite, but sometimes the advance of technology leaves me sad.


3 posted on 06/07/2006 10:43:54 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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4 posted on 06/07/2006 10:45:27 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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500 posts. Easy.


5 posted on 06/07/2006 10:45:33 AM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1400 knives and counting!)
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6 posted on 06/07/2006 10:46:09 AM PDT by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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Oh boy, this is gonna be a thread to end all threads! :) I got my hand in early!


7 posted on 06/07/2006 10:46:29 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.)
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If only I had the time to post a witty reply.


8 posted on 06/07/2006 10:46:33 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
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9 posted on 06/07/2006 10:47:14 AM PDT by sono ("Why can't we deport them? Mexico did." J Leno)
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Oh, hell, no.


10 posted on 06/07/2006 10:47:14 AM PDT by CheneyChick
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I'm thinking, x-rated medical site featuring girls with webcams....


11 posted on 06/07/2006 10:47:38 AM PDT by linda_22003
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LOL! Exactly the robot I could see volunteering for this job!


12 posted on 06/07/2006 10:47:46 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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Now we no longer require the services of illegal aliens to pick peaches.


13 posted on 06/07/2006 10:47:47 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
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they aint doing this for prostrate exams are they?!?!?!?!


14 posted on 06/07/2006 10:47:50 AM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com/)
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"Just because you’re located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or even Botswana, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a sophisticated diagnostic or therapeutic procedure," says Carol Slomski, a surgeon at Michigan State University, who helped design the system.

I'm sure the Botswani would be thrilled to receive this modern miracle. They may not have a modern hospital, but by-golly they'd be one step closer to it!

</sarc

15 posted on 06/07/2006 10:48:40 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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WHere do I sign up to be a sales engineer or a repair tech???????


16 posted on 06/07/2006 10:49:48 AM PDT by pikachu (I do not see the glass as half full or half empty but as the Jack Daniels is gone and the ice melted)
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Is it bad that I have been told I have a robotic grip?


17 posted on 06/07/2006 10:51:31 AM PDT by Darksheare ("Oh No! Zombies!" Actually, they aren't. They just haven't had their coffee yet.)
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Finally... a long-distance feeler-upper... :-)

It'll sell.


18 posted on 06/07/2006 10:53:00 AM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1400 knives and counting!)
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Will it replace mammograms? If it does, I'm all for it!


19 posted on 06/07/2006 10:53:43 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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They just took all the fun out of being a doctor.


20 posted on 06/07/2006 10:54:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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