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 Engineering fundamentally comes down to problem solving, and if the students can't get excited and inspired by the problem solving process because someone has spoon fed them a solution, then nobody wins.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. - kevinw [more] |
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da Vinci robot
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/11/19/heart.robots/
Check it out. It's a robot that helps a doctor perform open heart surgery. 
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15-09-2004, 11:11
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Re: da Vinci robot
For the past three years my students have met with some of the designers, and operators of this amazing machine. We have actually gotten to use one in a training environment. (Thanks Ethicon-Endo Surgery!) It is fun to operate without the pressures of a real patient. We got to stretch rubber bands around simulated tissues. The bands were similar to those used for braces
 It is a fantastic application of what we do in FIRST. Problem solving to help society. The procedures that this device will allow doctors to do are incredible.
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