Surgery by Auto Robots Advanced Platform From Google and Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon)

Google and Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon) have announced and following news that they are partnering in order to develop an advanced robot surgery platform with a view to possibly decrease the risk of human error and increase autonomous patterns of procedures. 

It results in a partnership that will include capabilities, intellectual property and expertise from both companies, and will involve Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, an expert maker of medical devices.

However at this stage the companies are not intending to fully replace human surgeons, nevertheless the potential and as a natural development this goal may be in their projects objectives.

At present, robot-assisted surgery does require a human surgeon that is in full control of instruments via a computer or a remote device.

In this context, it is not new that Google Glass has been previously used in robot-assisted surgery configurations, so Google already has an interest in this field not to mention the Artificial Intelligence R&D that it conducts. 

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Google Android Wear Development Now Available in LG Smartwatches

Google announced a new technology named Android Wear

Google OEM technology partners provide wearable hardware so that the technology is streamlined to many users. 

The first Google partner for this technology is the LG G Watch, a smart-watch that is due to launch in the US in the next 3 months. The technology incorporates key interesting design features such as Android UI extension, always-on voice commands that respond to the now-familiar “Ok Google.”

Furthermore users of the technology will be able to see notifications alongside contextual information. Google further application development include sectors such as health and fitness, apps that provide goals, reminders and progress tracking for fitness routines, as well as real-time feedback.

It has been noted that LG is a key launch partner for Android Wear. Other Google launch partners include Motorola, with a summer launch for its Moto 360.

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New Photo Technology, Photo Capabilities to Reflect Light As 3D Objects

It has been announced an innovative technology which allows for printing processing as 3D objects. If then follows that this process permits the production of printed photos that contain properties that behave differently depending on light angles, similar to a 3D object. The technology basically consists of a  "reflectance paper" covered with thousands of tiny dimples.

This innovation was presented and researched by a team of researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz, Hewlett-Packard and 3M.

James Davis from the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, stated "If the paper is flat, it will always look flat no matter what you print on it. So the question became how to get the surface of the paper to have geometry to it ...With the reflectance paper, for each pixel we have a little dimple that has all angular directions on its surface. Now we can print ink over it in a way that controls the angles of light that will be reflected from each pixel."