POSTS TAGGED AS Robotic Trends

MRI-Guided Surgical Robot

Pierre Dupont, PhD chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Children’s Hospital Boston is working on a ball-baring sized robot [MORE]

Two Assistance Robots for Hospitals

Today’s children, who have grown up with “Transformer” toys and videos about robots, may be conditioned to accept robotic [MORE]

Nanoelectronic Synapse

In some ways, the microtransistor and neural synapse are similar-they both convey information in a complex network.  But they [MORE]

Robots that Simulate Disease

This may be the ultimate medical simulation to date.  Kaiser Permanente in Ohio has installed a simulation facility that includes [MORE]

Advances in Brain-Machine Interface

“Shared Control” is the concept that drives brain-computer interfaces.  With a neuro-prosthetic arm, for instance, movement is a shared [MORE]

Robotic Gripper, Not Like a Human Hand

Using an ordinary latex balloon filled with coffee grounds and attached to a robotic arm, researchers from Cornell, the [MORE]

UC Irvine’s Robotic Cancer Center

Relying upon daVinci surgical robots, cancer surgeons have now begun a minimally invasive approach for thyroidectomies.  Instead of making [MORE]

Swisslog’s Lab and Pharmacy Robots

Put in several lab specimens or other materials weighing up to 50 pounds, push a button and watch Swisslog’s [MORE]

Robotic Vision

After studying how  the human brain processes visual data that results in movement, a European collaborative group used off-the-shelf parts [MORE]

Mind-Reading Wheelchairs

Thinking becomes doing with a new brain-machine interface that analyses EEG signals in 125 milliseconds to reliably control motion of [MORE]

Intuitive Robots

Delving into the cognitive workings where two people are focused on the same task-say, a master and an apprentice–European scientists [MORE]

Jacob Rosen Develops “Wearable” Robot

 
University of California at Santa Cruz engineer, Jacob Rosen, has developed a robotic “exoskeleton” that can assist disabled people in [MORE]