Artificial Intelligence Program

In their most recent experiments, the engineers in progress with an elementary tabletop robot whose "eyes" are a novel 3-D ultrasound technology urbanized at Duke. An artificial intelligence program which totally explains about the brain of the robot and it does following work real-time 3-D information, processing it and giving the robot specific instructions to execute. In their simulations, the researchers used little (2 millimeter) pieces of needle because, like shrapnel, they are subject to magnetism. By proving that the robot could guide a needle to an exact location, it would simply be a matter of replacing the needle probe with a tiny tool, such as a grabber, the researchers said.

In the most recent conducted experiment, the robot effectively executed its most important task: tracing a tiny piece of metal in a water tub, after that directing a needle on the last part of the robotic arm to it. The researchers had before used this advance to detect micro-calcifications in simulated breast tissue. In the latest experiments, Rogers added an electromagnet to the end of the transducer, or wand, the tool that sends out and receives the ultrasonic waves.