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New AHA/ASA Guidelines Support Robot-Assisted Gait Training and Virtual Reality for Stroke Rehabilitation

For patients and therapists, believing in the benefits state-of-the-art robotic medical devices bring to the table is one thing. But having your beliefs incorporated into the official practice guidelines by associations of experts and authorities in the field is something entirely different.

23 May 2016

Norton Audubon Hospital Deploys Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots to Fight Against Hospital-Acquired Infections

A new army of robotic soldiers is striking back against germs and bacteria at Norton Audubon Hospital. The hospital has invested in three Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots™, a not-so-secret weapon in its fight against hospital-acquired infections caused by pathogens like methicillin-resistant Staph (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile (C. diff).

20 May 2016

Wyss Institute Enters Collaboration with ReWalk Robotics

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has entered into a collaboration with ReWalk Robotics Ltd., to accelerate the development of the Institute’s lightweight, wearable soft exosuit technologies for assisting people with lower limb disabilities.

18 May 2016

Flexible Exosuit Reduces Energy Cost during Loaded Walking

Harvard University researchers have invented a new flexible exosuit, which lowered the energy expenditure of walking while carrying heavy weight, according to the proof-of-principle study featured in the open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.

16 May 2016

New Robotic Legs Could Help Patients Move Hands-Free

These legs are the only design available that allow people to move about ‘hands-free’. This means they can use their hands for the activities of daily life, like making a cup of tea while upright. The Kent study in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA), will examine the impact of these simple freedoms on the patient, both physically and mentally.

13 May 2016

Insect-Inspired Robots, Drones and Bionics to be Exhibited in Robot Zone at Imperial Festival

Insect-inspired robots, drones that go where no humans can and eye-controlled wheelchairs are just some of the exhibits in the Robot Zone.

6 May 2016

Supervised Autonomous Robot Can Effectively Perform Soft Tissue Surgery

Putting surgery one step closer into the realm of self-driving cars and intelligent machines, researchers show for the first time that a supervised autonomous robot can successfully perform soft tissue surgery.

5 May 2016

Johns Hopkins Computer Scientist Programs Robotic Arm for Soft Tissue Surgery

Not even the surest surgeon’s hand is quite as steady and consistent as a robotic arm built of metal and plastic, programmed to perform the same motions over and over. So could it handle the slippery stuff of soft tissues during a surgery?

5 May 2016

Study Shows Feasibility of Performing Robotically Assisted PCI on Patients with Complex Coronary Lesions

A first-of-its kind study using robotic technology to remotely control coronary guidewires and stents reported on the feasibility of performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on patients with complex coronary lesions.

5 May 2016

Surgeons Show Supervised, Autonomous In Vivo Robotic Soft Tissue Surgery Feasible in Open Surgical Setting

Surgeons and scientists from Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Health System are the first to demonstrate that supervised, autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery on a live subject (in vivo) in an open surgical setting is feasible and outperforms standard clinical techniques in a dynamic clinical environment.

5 May 2016