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Title: Scientists use Lego Mindstorms Sets as Robots for Creating Artifical Bones Post by: Ddude The Insane on March 23, 2012, 06:43:37 pm Yes, you read that right. :P
Scientists at Cambridge were working on artificial bones for medical uses. One of the less interesting tasks they needed to perform was dipping objects in a dish of calcium and protein, rinsing them off, and then dipping the same object in a dish of phosphate and protein. For science. But dipping, rinsing and dipping gets tedious after a while. Even for science. So what'd they do? Rather than take the easy way out and hire an underpaid I know this sounds cool, but am I the only one concerned the prospect of by Lego robots? I mean, think about it: First they've made basic robots. What if they make the robots self-repairing? After all, what's easier to repair than Legos? And once they're self-repairing, the scientists will no doubt want to start improving the robot's intelligence. Egad, man! We'll have an army of self-repairing, brilliant, robots on our hands, bitter from being kept in boxes for decades, nay, centuries... Just thinking out loud here. :P Original news article here. (http://www.gizmag.com/lego-mindstorms-bone-making-robots/21844/) |