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Ultra (personal rapid transit) Coordinates: 51.479287°N 0.487687°W. An Ultra Pod at Heathrow Airport. Ultra (a term formed from the first letters of the words in the phrase "urban light transit") is a personal rapid transit podcar system developed by the British engineering company Ultra Global PRT (formerly Advanced Transport Systems). [1][2 ...
The Heathrow Terminal 5 Transit is an automated people mover system (APM) at London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. It operates in the Heathrow Terminal 5 complex and conveys air passengers between the main airport terminal and its satellite buildings, Terminals 5B and 5C. [1][2]
Heathrow pod: PRT Heathrow Airport, England, UK (June 2011) 3.8 km (2.4 mi) [26] 3 / 21 [27] The Heathrow PRT system became operational in 2011, connecting Terminal 5 with a long-term car park. [28] In May 2014 BAA said in a draft 5-year plan that it would extend the system throughout the airport, but this was dropped from the final plan ...
Medical robot. A laparoscopic robotic surgery machine. Patient-side cart of the da Vinci surgical system. A medical robot is a robot used in the medical sciences. They include surgical robots. These are in most telemanipulators, which use the surgeon's activators on one side to control the "effector" on the other side. [1][2][3]
Britain’s busiest airport is back in profit, with passenger numbers almost back to pre-pandemic levels. In 2022 Heathrow suffered a £684m adjusted loss before tax. Last year this swung to a £ ...
The airport is the primary hub of British Airways and is a base for Virgin Atlantic. It has four passenger terminals (numbered 2 to 5) and a cargo terminal. In 2021 Heathrow served 19.4 million passengers, of which 17 million were international and 2.4 million domestic.
Rehabilitation robotics is a field of research dedicated to understanding and augmenting rehabilitation through the application of robotic devices. Rehabilitation robotics includes development of robotic devices tailored for assisting different sensorimotor functions [1] (e.g. arm, hand, [2] [3] leg, ankle [4]), development of different schemes of assisting therapeutic training, [5] and ...
The da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic surgical system that uses a minimally invasive surgical approach. The system is manufactured by the company Intuitive Surgical. The system is used for prostatectomies, increasingly for cardiac valve repair and for renal [1] and gynecologic surgical procedures. [2][3] It was used in an estimated 200,000 ...