POSTS TAGGED AS automation

Using A.I. for Routine Examinations

Artificial Intelligence in China
On a trip to China a few years ago, I saw a line of people at a [MORE]

Algorithms, Augmentation, Autonomy—the Three Waves of Automation

Rise of Automation
According to this piece, we’re already surfing the first wave; the second should hit in the 2020’s, and [MORE]

Lab of the Future

BioBright Smart Lab
What would the amalgamation of microfluidics, robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning do for laboratory research? [MORE]

Automated Stem Cell Prep

3D Cell Models Form in Hanging Droplets
This piece has an old idea in a new “package.” The old idea is [MORE]

A Prosthetic Hand that Sees

Prosthetic Seeing Hand
Bioengineers at Newcastle University in the UK have designed a prosthetic hand with an internal camera that sees [MORE]

Hacking the Robots

Hardly a day passes without some news about cyber insecurity. Banks, movie studios, many kinds of manufactures, and universities are [MORE]

Automated Pharma Factory

Datwyler Manufacturing Facility
Datwyler Sealing Solutions, a 102 year old Swiss manufacturer, is building a new highly automated plant in Middletown, [MORE]

Continuous Glucose and Lactate Monitoring

OptiScanner 6000
OptiScan Medical (Hayward, CA) has received the EU’s approval for a medical device that measures glucose and lactate levels [MORE]

Automating Patch Clamping

Patcherbot
Among the several “omics” of molecular biology is channelomics which refers to ion channels in all cellular membranes. Channelopathies are [MORE]

Another Social Care Robot, “Floka”

Floka Robot
Bielefeld University, in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state, has a university-wide collaborative group of 250 researchers working under the title [MORE]

Automating Artificial Intelligence

Robot Conversation
“. . . imagine yourself sitting on a couch, conversing with an artificially intelligent psychotherapist who interacts with you [MORE]

Microfluidics Device for DNA Testing

Paper Machine
Quoting directly: “The ‘Paper Machine,’ as the researchers behind the project call it, is a microfluidic device made out [MORE]

Automated Stem Cell Production

DNA Replication
For emphasis, this piece is simply noted: Researchers at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute have created [MORE]

Cobots Are Coming

Enon Robot Personal Assistant
Healthcare is different from most other kinds of work because the object of attention—the patient—is alive. Nevertheless, [MORE]