Episode description

Topics: Robocraft, a game which makes learning basic engineering both fun and exciting; a prototype of an octopus-inspired robotic surgical arm; laparoscopic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; The Da Vinci Surgical System; TransEnterix work in developing the SurgiBot™ System; and photonic computers which manipulate data in the form of light waves.

Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the May 20, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 33 minutes] This monologue was recorded on May 19, 2015.

Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, futurist, magazine writer and award-winning podcaster. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. For the last nine years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and commentary) all the ways the future will be different from today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future entitled: Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.