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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

Georgia Tech Professor Uses Artificial Intelligence to Offer Online Teaching Assistance

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It’s a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online master’s of science in computer science program.

10 May 2016

UW Scientists Develop Five-Fingered Robot Hand that Can Learn from Its Own Experience

Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinning it around to get a solid grip.

10 May 2016

Bee Model Developed by University of Sheffield Could Help Advance Autonomous Robots

A computer model has been created by University of Sheffield scientists to study how bees are able to fly without hitting walls. This knowledge will be helpful to develop autonomous robots.

6 May 2016

New Self-Powered Smart Skin Could Provide Human-Like Sense of Touch to Robots

Smart synthetic skins have the potential to allow robots to touch and sense what’s around them, but keeping them powered up and highly sensitive at low cost has been a challenge. Now scientists report in the journal ACS Nano a self-powered, transparent smart skin that is simpler and less costly than many other versions that have been developed.

15 Apr 2016

Researchers Use Human-Robot Interactions to Treat Patients with Serious Social Disorders

A collaborative research team has found humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from social disorders such as schizophrenia or social phobia. It is thanks to the theory of similarity, which suggests that it is easier to interact socially with someone who looks, behaves or moves like us.

12 Apr 2016

Multi-Modal Communication Could Enhance Robot Avatars

UK-based scientists have found that communicating through actions is more effective than communicating through words when it comes to the world of robots. The team found that when robot avatars use their hands to talk, they were able to communicate as effectively as human beings.

5 Apr 2016

Researchers Create Breakthrough Mind-Controllable Prosthesis Using Electrode System

Thanks to the electrodes system a stable signal is obtained, which allows precise control like handling an egg without breaking. It also provides sensations as if it were a real hand.

15 Mar 2016

New Class of Muscle-Powered Walking Bio-Bots Responds to Light

A new class of miniature biological robots, or bio-bots, has seen the light – and is following where the light shines.

15 Mar 2016

Researchers Build Ciliate-Inspired Microrobot Using Liquid-Crystal Elastomers

Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to these microorganisms. In spite of this, however, they are able to self-propel through water by the synchronized movement of thousands of extremely thin filaments on their outer skin, called cilia.

26 Feb 2016