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Growing healthy resilient biological tissues on humanoid robots
Musculoskeletal robots may one day assist the growth of replacement tissue grafts for transplant patients. Researchers at the University of Oxford are beginning to investigate a potentially...
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Are robots the future of precision lung surgery?
da Vinci Si System with single-site instrumentation ©2016, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. No matter how great a surgeon is, robotic assistance can bring a higher level of precision to the operating table....
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Trusting robots with our lives
The Baxter robot hands off a cable to a human collaborator — an example of a co-robot in action. Photo credit: Aaron Bestick, UC Berkeley. The key takeaway from Tuesday’s RobotLabNYC forum, on...
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Shrinking data for surgical training
Image: MIT News Laparoscopy is a surgical technique in which a fiber-optic camera is inserted into a patient’s abdominal cavity to provide a video feed that guides the surgeon through a minimally...
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Snake robots slither into our hearts, literally
Snake robot at the Robotics institute. Credit: Jiuguang Wang/Flickr The biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden describes how the snake became the most cursed of all beasts: “you shall walk on your...
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A robotic doctor is gearing up for action
A new robot under development can send information on the stiffness, look and feel of a patient to a doctor located kilometres away. Image credit: Accrea A robotic doctor that can be controlled...
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New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: CYBERLEGs++
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1...
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SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
Image: MIT CSAIL Singapore and MIT have been at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development. First, there were self-driving golf buggies. Then, an autonomous electric car. Now, leveraging similar...
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Robot-driven device improves crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy
Child using robot-driven TPAD training method to improve crouch gait, symptom of cerebral palsy.—Photo courtesy of Sunil Agrawal/Columbia Engineering In the U.S., 3.6 out of 1000 school-aged children...
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Smaller, smarter, softer robotic arm for endoscopic surgery
SEM images of the hybrid soft pop-up actuators. The image has been colored in post processing to differentiate between the soft (in yellow) and the rigid structure (in blue). Credit: Wyss Institute at...
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New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves
Researchers have devised a new way to monitor sleep stages without sensors attached to the body. Their device uses an advanced artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze the radio signals around the...
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Long-term control of brain-computer interfaces by users with locked-in syndrome
Using Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) as a way to give people with locked-in syndrome back reliable communication and control capabilities has long been a futuristic trope of medical dramas and...
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Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Cory Kidd from Catalia Health
Mike Salem from Udacity’s Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material. This week we’re featuring Mike’s interview with...
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Robotic system monitors specific neurons
MIT engineers have devised a way to automate the process of monitoring neurons in a living brain using a computer algorithm that analyzes microscope images and guides a robotic arm to the target cell....
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#244: Robot Pediatric Coach, with Ayanna Howard
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about her work to help children with the movement disorder cerebral palsy. Howard discusses how...
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Brain surgery: The robot efficacy test?
An analysis by Stanford researchers shows that the use of robot-assisted surgery to remove kidneys wasn’t always more cost-effective than using traditional laparascopic methods.Master...
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#248: Semi-active Prostheses, with Peter Adamczyk
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Adamczyk, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on semi-active foot and ankle prostheses. The difference is that active below-knee...
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#250: Learning Prosthesis Control Parameters, with Helen Huang
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Helen Huang, Joint Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State, about a method of tuning powered lower limb...
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#254: Collaborative Systems for Drug Discovery, with Peter Harris
In this episode, Abate interviews Peter Harris from HighRes Biosolutions about automation in the field of drug discovery. At HighRes Biosolutions they are developing modular robotic systems that work...
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#256: Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matarić, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics. Socially...
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#260: Hyundai’s Exoskeletons, with Sangin Park
In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Sangin Park, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, about exoskeletons. Park describes three exoskeleton prototypes: one for helping workers reduce back pain,...
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#266: Towards using Micro and Nano Robots in the Human Body, with Peer Fischer
In this episode, Marwa ElDiwiny interview Peer Fisher, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the Director of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck...
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#282: A Social Robot Companion for Older Adults, with Dor Skuler
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dor Skuler, CEO and co-founder of Intuition Robotics, about a socially assistive robot for older adults named ElliQ. Skuler discusses the motivation for ElliQ,...
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Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
A team led by Wyss Associate Faculty member Paolo Bonato, Ph.D., found in a recent study that wearable technology is suitable to accurately track motor recovery of individuals with brain injuries and...
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Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon...
SoftHand Pro. Credits: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT’s teams will compete in the “Powered Arm Prosthesis” category showing two different robotic arm prostheses made in Italy: SoftHandPro and...
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