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Scientists Propose New Model to Find Programming Solution for Erratic Human Behavior

Human unpredictability is a problem in the increasingly automated systems people use every day.

14 Oct 2016

Unique Soft Robots with Ability to Imitate Human Muscles

Robots that are soft, flexible and reconfigurable are being built by EPFL researchers. The robots are air-actuated and act like human muscles, and could be applied in physical rehabilitation.

13 Oct 2016

Study Explores Cost-Effectiveness of Prosthetic Interventions for TTA Patients

Patients with serious lower leg trauma have two main care options: limb preservation or transtibial amputation (TTA) with the subsequent use of a prosthesis, or artificial limb.

7 Oct 2016

Robot Could Be a Nursing Assistant for Your Next Visit to Hospital

The nursing assistant for your next trip to the hospital might be a robot. This is the implication of research recently published by Dr. Elena De Momi and colleagues in the open access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

6 Oct 2016

Swedish Man with World’s First Implanted Bionic Arm to Compete in Cybathlon 2016

A few years ago, a patient was implanted with a bionic arm for the first time in the world using control technology developed at Chalmers University of Technology.

5 Oct 2016

New Research Paper Explores Use of Brain-Machine Interfaces for Communication, Rehabilitation

In the journal Nature Reviews Neurology the researcher Ander Ramos of Tecnalia together with Niel Birbaumer, lecturer at the University of Tübingen, have expounded how brain-machine interfaces (BMI) use brain activity to control external devices, thus enabling seriously disabled patients to interact with the environment.

5 Oct 2016

USC Norris, Springbok Cares Launch Virtual Reality Initiative to Treat Young Cancer Patients

The University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has partnered with Springbok Cares to provide a unique Virtual Reality (VR) initiative for patients in the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer program at USC (AYA@USC).

4 Oct 2016

GuidaBot Receives NSF Grant to Develop, Commercialize Robotic System for MRI-Guided Interventions

GuidaBot, LLC, a joint venture between the University of Houston and Fannin Innovation Studio, has received a one-year, $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and commercialize a robotic manipulator designed to work within the powerful magnetic field of an MRI machine.

3 Oct 2016

Researchers Discover Simple Way to Direct Synthetic Microswimmers Towards Light or Darkness

Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects them from excessive light intensity.

3 Oct 2016

Shape-Programmable Microrobots May One Day Carry Out Medical Functions in Specific Locations

One day, microrobots may be able to swim through the human body like sperm or paramecia to carry out medical functions in specific locations.

27 Sep 2016

Medical Robotics News

Scientists Propose New Model to Find Programming Solution for Erratic Human Behavior

Unique Soft Robots with Ability to Imitate Human Muscles

Study Explores Cost-Effectiveness of Prosthetic Interventions for TTA Patients

Robot Could Be a Nursing Assistant for Your Next Visit to Hospital

Swedish Man with World’s First Implanted Bionic Arm to Compete in Cybathlon 2016

New Research Paper Explores Use of Brain-Machine Interfaces for Communication, Rehabilitation

USC Norris, Springbok Cares Launch Virtual Reality Initiative to Treat Young Cancer Patients

GuidaBot Receives NSF Grant to Develop, Commercialize Robotic System for MRI-Guided Interventions

Researchers Discover Simple Way to Direct Synthetic Microswimmers Towards Light or Darkness

Shape-Programmable Microrobots May One Day Carry Out Medical Functions in Specific Locations

Machine Learning Can Predict the Mechanical Properties of Polymers

Uncovering AI’s Deepest Fears this Halloween with the Spook the Machine Project

AI Enhances IVF with Accurate Embryo Selection

The Role of AI in Corporate Social Responsibility

Deep Learning Elevates the Precision of Brain Surgery

Robots and Renewable Energy: Hydropower Inspections

Robots and Renewable Energy: Wind Farm Monitoring

Robots and Renewable Energy: Solar Plant Security

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