Robots for the operating room

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Robodoc, created by IBM and Integrated Surgical Systems (Sacramento, CA), is a robot designed to do hip-replacement surgery. Robots that do invasive surgery must be carefully positioned and monitored, but they are especially suited to accomplish some procedures. They provide a steady, accurate hand, and they can loop tirelessly through iterations. Robodoc is the first robot to perform surgery in the US, but surgical robots already are being used in Europe. Robots are increasingly used for various medical purposes. Some people are uncomfortable with the idea of robots in the operating room, and the word 'robot' is not viewed as helpful. Patrick A. Finlay is the director of Armstrong Projects Ltd, which is a medical robotics company in London. Finlay suggests the phrase 'computer-assisted surgery.'

Electronic computers, Prepackaged software, Computer programming services, Research, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Surgery, Medical research, Robots, Surgical technology, Integrated Surgical Systems Inc.

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Computer graphics aiding jurors' recall

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The increasing use of sophisticated computer graphics as jury trial visual aides is hailed as an important device to increase juror recall and denounced as manipulative. Currently in use on trials ranging from medical malpractice to airplane accidents, computer graphics may have helped win Alpo Pet Foods' suit against Ralston Purina Co's dog food advertising. Litigation Sciences Pres Gregory Mazares claims graphics raise the amount of information jurors retain from 10 percent to almost 20 percent. Critics of the practice warn that these graphic displays can be manipulative and selective, as well as expensive. Ranging from $10,000 to $250,000, computer graphics for jury trials are out of reach for all but the more well-to-do litigants.

Innovations, Technology application, Evidence, Demonstrative, Demonstrative evidence, Legal practice software, Computer graphics, Jury, Juries, Lawsuits

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