Telerobotics & Zapping Addiction - LIGHT MATTERS 04.10.2013
-Telerobotics
-3-D Distant Imaging
-Zapping addiction
This week on Light Matters: telerobots give doctors "surgical superpowers,” photon counting is used for depth imaging, a laser zaps away cocaine addiction, and the bio-optics community backs President Obama’s brain mapping initiative.
Light Matters is the Photonics Industry’s weekly news program and is hosted by Photonics Media’s Melinda Rose and Laura Marshall.
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