#15 Avatar Technology Digest / Human head transplant edges closer to reality / Robot for asteroids

Hello everyone! Can this be true?! Avatar Technology Digest is officially back! We hope to stay with you this season that and keep you posted on the latest breaking news stories in Technology, Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence as they happen around the world. And here are the top stories of the last week.

1) A 54 year-old cancer patient receives 3D printed rib cage in world first surgery. Melbourne-based medical device company in conjunction with Spanish surgical team at the Salamanca University Hospital in Spain has developed a custom 3D-printed implant for a Spanish man suffering from a chest wall sarcoma – a condition that had resulted in a cancerous tumor growing around his rib cage, requiring certain sections to be removed.

2) Human head transplant edges closer to reality: Chinese surgeon Dr. Ren Xiaoping teams up with Italian doctor Sergio Canavero to perform controversial procedure in 2017. We used to cover the story of chinese surgeon who has performed nearly 1,000 head transplants on mice so far. Some of the mice reportedly lived for up to one day following the operation. And now both doctors prepare for what would be the world's first human head transplant.

3) European astronaut Andreas Mogensen has successfully driven and manipulated an Earth-based rover whilst orbiting at a height of 400 km aboard the International Space Station. He commanded a rover to drive to an experiment board and, using the vehicle’s robot arm, place a rounded peg into a hole. It is the kind of technology astronauts might use one day at Mars.

4) Chinese researchers have used cutting-edge aerospace technology to design and produce an artificial heart. In an animal experiment, which is similar to a clinical implantation, a sheep has lived for 120 days, breaking the longest survival record, after it was implanted an "artificial heart".

5) Exploring comets, asteroids, and small moons can be difficult due to their low gravity. Not only can landing on one be like trying to alight on a trampoline, but roving around their surfaces is next to impossible because the negligible gravity offers practically no traction. To overcome this, a team of engineers is developing Hedgehog, a completely symmetrical robot rover for low-gravity exploration that moves by hopping.

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Sources: Wall Street Journal, TomoWorld, Ruptly TV, ESA, People's Daily Online / www.gizmag.com, www.dailymail.co.uk, www.bbc.com, www.en.people.cn, www.spectrum.ieee.org

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