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Robot Prototype Finds, Attacks and Kills Breast Cancer Cells

gizmodo.com — Here's one in the plus column for the looming robot uprising: a prototype developed by University of Maryland professor Jaydev Desai could one day diagnose, hunt, and destroy breast cancer cells all in one sitting, and in a much more efficient manner than we ham-handed human beings.

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  • searcade, on 10/12/2008, -1/+17"Unfortunately, the robot is a prototype, and trials are estimate to be four years out, if they happen at all. "We're not just governed by technology," said said Rao Gullapalli, a collaborator on the robot from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "We're governed by bureaucracy as well.""
    I would have liked the bad news first.
    • jemka, on 10/14/2008, -0/+5You know I always fantasized red tape between breasts to be a good thing.
  • skabyss, on 10/13/2008, -0/+24Dugg for boob awareness
  • sockpuppets, on 10/13/2008, -0/+6Finally my hookerbots can live cancer free lives.
  • Bradkid101, on 10/14/2008, -0/+45dugg for bender thumbnail
  • dmark77, on 10/14/2008, -0/+6All I wanted to do was bring about the simple dream of death to all humans.
  • Junior612, on 10/14/2008, -1/+8Boobs - prepare to welcome your robot overlords.
  • CrankyHippo, on 10/14/2008, -1/+4I hope that this technology could lead into a robot that simulates a pancreas for Type 1 diabetics
  • borez, on 10/14/2008, -4/+1*****
  • megamod, on 10/14/2008, -1/+1I understand that it seems like there's too much bureaucracy in this world to the point that even simple tasks become inefficient and cumbersome.

    Imagine the bad publicity this would get if it wasn't tested thoroughly and the robot ended up in the bloodstream/heart. Would it be more backpedaling than the bureaucratic effort being put into this? Who knows?
    • RobotBuddha, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Probably. It wouldn't be the first time that a new treatment that 0.somthing percent of the population has bad reaction to winds up letting hundreds of thousands of people die because the public has a freakout. A public usually totally healthy, but willing to demand that we not be allowed to take the risks if we want to. As someone who's in pretty much constant pain every second, I can promise you that I'd be more than willing to take a 1% chance of death if it'd offer hope to get me out of this.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 10/14/2008, -0/+5It's just a matter of time before they track down Sarah Connor.
  • doublefelix, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1If they're talking nanotechnology here I wished they'd just call it that cause I can't handle the idea of 'invisible robots. ***** that.
  • dafragsta, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2The Brest ***** 4000. You don't want to see what it does with the cancer.
  • santaliqueur, on 10/14/2008, -0/+5THE DISTANT FUTURE - THE YEAR 2000
    • silent7seven, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2THERE IS NO MORE UNETHICAL TREATMENT OF THE ELEPHANTS
      • santaliqueur, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3WELL THERE ARE NO MORE ELEPHANTS, BUT STILL IT'S GOOD
      • silent7seven, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1AFFIRMATIVE.
        We no longer say yes. Instead we say affirmative.
        YES.. AFFIR AFFIRMATIVE.
  • oda1, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3I wanna see the robot prototype for prostate exams.
  • FalconJones, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2the iRobot booba...
  • moofree, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Hey baby, wanna kill all cancer?
  • chok1111, on 10/14/2008, -2/+0Hot video love scenes
    http://videolovescenes.blogspot.com/
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    • houndeyex, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Did you just come from the iPhone and Rock post?
  • Gantrof, on 10/14/2008, -0/+0Posted yesterday..no dig.
  • SoopaflySAM, on 10/14/2008, -1/+1Dugg for Bender. Dugg because Bender is Mexican.
  • BradOFarrell, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2Can I get some Protoman/Roll rule 34?
  • Jenovaside, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3WOO we cured cancer again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • urbandistrict, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the usage of Bender.
  • ShylockHolmes, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2Journey to the center of the boob.
  • protogenxl, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Hey baby want to kill all humans with me?
  • stefyourself, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Anything that's good for breasts is good for humanity!
  • S201, on 10/14/2008, -1/+2Digg: curing cancer daily since 2004.
  • S201, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Oops. =)
  • dmanmax99, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1The robots are after our women now! Quickly men, charge the EMPs!
    • Ibox, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2NO! stop they are saving the boobies!!!
  • rmeddy, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2Ha ha Silly meatbags and your cancer.
  • shark72, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1No "RoboCop-a-feel" jokes yet?
  • bootlegapparel, on 10/14/2008, -1/+1As great as that sounds, if i was in that situation i sure as hell wouldn't want a robot operating on me.

    What if it malfunctions and burns your whole breast off? Some things you still want to be done by humans no matter how advanced robotics gets
    • RobotBuddha, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Given that burning the breast off is the final option if it can't be stopped, I think it's a safe gamble.
  • crackedlogic, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1I am Bender, please insert cancer.
  • dddavid, on 10/14/2008, -0/+0"Better yet, the robot will also be able to access parts of the human body that human surgeons can't" -- Isn't that why in the future, all hookers will be robots?
  • chromerium, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3As a programmer, I do worry about bugs. What if someone messed up the 'cancer identification code' and it went after just the boobs.

    The boobs, won't somebody think of the boobs!
  • palmdoc, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Just make sure the robot does not run on Windoze.....
  • XeRoX2k2, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1all your boobs are belong to us?
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