Extending a Helping Arm to Injured Soldiers
From: Medical Device Link
By: Lindsey Rooney

Responding to emergency medical situations is always stressful, but the
pressure increases when the patient is lying in the middle of a battlefield.
To speed up treatment for wounded soldiers, researchers are developing a
robotic arm with the ability to diagnose patients. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/09/07/007.html

Links:
Howie Choset
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~choset/
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/directory/details/29
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=47
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=244

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0115_030115_snakebot.html

A snake-inspired robot
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-200661.html