Robot that provides remote-control relief from aches and pains
You live in Moscow and your mother calls from Paris. “My shoulder hurts,” she says. “Can you massageit?” If you have (1) __________ $50,000 in a robot called “Tmsuk IV” this is no problem at all. You (2)__________ simulate the action using a set of controls and the data is (3) __________ down a phone lineto the robot. Tmsuk IV simultaneously repeats the moves. The user can see exactly what he is doing (4) __________ the robot’s face-mounted video camera andcan hear through microphones in its ears. Giving a back rub to someone several hundred kilometers (5)__________ is just one of Tmsuk IV’s (6) __________. The robot can do anything from fetching a cup oftea to turning over pillows, (7) __________ from afar. This kind of technology is already being (8) __________ in fields such as medicine, where doctors mayone day be able to give treatment or (9) __________ emergency surgery at a distance. New technology is making these remote systems so (10) __________ that the user can even feel pressureas he touches something, or feel (11) __________ as he uses a knife. But with Tmsuk IV, the basictechnology is now commercially available for (12) __________ people – or at least for (13) __________who can afford it. Thames, the Japanese company that makes Tmsuk IV hopes to sell 10 robots this year.There are other possible (14) __________ outside the purely domestic. Tmsuk IV could (15) __________with unexploded bombs or nuclear radiation leaks.
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