Category Archives: MBOT

Chart of the Day: Microbot Medical

According to Yahoo!Finance, “Microbot Medical Inc., a pre-clinical medical device company, researches, designs, and develops micro-robotics assisted medical technologies targeting the minimally invasive surgery space.”

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The Study of Failure

“The 256-page document reprimanded the space agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for trying to 'contain potentially serious problems' and for urging rocket maker Morton Thiokol Inc. to reverse its position against launching the shuttle in cold weather. 'A well structured and managed system emphasizing safety' would have detected mounting concerns about the desn of booster rocket seals and the fatal launch might have been averted, the report said. ("The Rogers Commission, calling the Challenger disaster 'an accident..." UPI Archive: Washington News, 9 June 1986. Infotrac Newsstand, Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.)”