Originally published at: What will Robot Finger find in your cavities? - Boing Boing
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I can think of a couple use cases for this: remote medicine (put one of these in the research stations in Antarctica in case of a medical emergency, to give doctors thousands of miles away some semblance of tactile information) and explosives ordnance disposal (give a bomb disposal robot a more nuanced sense of touch to investigate devices) first come to mind.
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Am I only one that imagined that the first one of these would be slightly bigger?
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may have to add ‘bioinspired’, or hey… “bioinspirational!”, to my yellowing business card.
I was just thinking it would work nicely for finding breaks and clogs in underground pipes. Probably some other plumbing applications that don’t involve our own internal plumbing as well.
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Robot rectal exams when?
Forced rectal exams by law enforcement when?
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This afternoon, and by the side of the highway, if you give enough of them to the Texas highway patrol, that’s my guess.
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From the headline I thought this would be about a tool for profiling dental caries.
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I’m unclear if this is a rule 37 trigger, or if it’s a result of rule 37.
Isn’t that these guys?
(Hey, Group Halloween costume inspo!)
Frankly, I would prefer a robot to the last urologist I visited. I heard this shmuck yell at his staff more than once, and then, at the height of COVID, he refused to wear a mask.
Rural healthcare FTW! /s
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