SRI's Trauma Pod

We seriously hope that they're not calling this the "trauma pod" just to cash in on the cachét of a certain other gadget (we'll cut 'em some slack since the term has actually been around for a while), but SRI just landed a $12 million research grant from the Defense Department to develop a battlefield robot that can be used to remotely perform surgery on wounded soldiers. SRI says that they're still at least a decade away from the trauma pod becoming a reality, mainly because of the massive wireless bandwidth that's needed for telesurgery.

[TheZodiac @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM]

They could call it Trauam PAD, but then it would sound like a feminin hygiene product. EW.

[anonymous @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM]

What the hell is Tony Soprano doing there?

[Starluck @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM]

I can just see the headlines now:
Patient died during surgery due to massive lag, and someone on the network using bandwidth to download mp3's.

[OddManOut @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM]

"It will take quite a while to evacuate the T-47's."

'Well forget the heavy equipment and just take the smaller units.'

"Take care sir."

'Thanks'

2-1B medical droid: CHECK!

Wake me up when we get the YT-1300 light stock corellian freighters, X-Wings, lightsabers and force powers.

Oh yeah, bikini princess slave girls too...

[Robert Texturelighting Cole @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM]

you can view the full animation of the Trauama Pod in action here:http://www.xvivo.net/Medical2004/Index.html

[mcgill @ Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM]

I hope these robots are going to be trauma free robots. ha-ha!