Blog Technology 18 July 2018
Humanoid robots set to take over hospital lab
In a wonderful collision between science, science-fiction and art, actors and researchers from the BioFab3D laboratory at St Vincent’s Hospital in the Australian city of Melbourne are set to perform a 100-year-old play that gave the world the word “robotâ€.
BioFab3D is Australia’s first biomedical engineering and robotics centre. It gathers together researchers, clinicians and engineers in a quest to meld cell science and materials science to create a new generation of prosthetic cartilage, muscle, bone and organs for use in the treatment of trauma and disease.
As part of National Science Week, the lab staff have teamed up with self-described “play-making collective†PlayReactive to present an adaptation of a 1920 science-fiction themed play called R.U.R, by Czech writer Karel Capek.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/humanoid-robots-set-to-take-over-hospital-lab
