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A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that ...

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Patients implanted with brain chips from Elon Musk’s Neuralink have begun to control robots’ arms with their thoughts, the company said. “Participants in our clinical trials have extended digital ...

In September 2005, MD+DI published a story about researchers at Michigan State University who had built a robot designed for remote breast exams. The robot combined ultrasound technology and video ...