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GE Developing Surgical Tool-Handling Robot

SURGICAL SYSTEM REVENUE
Surgery is the mainstay of hospital revenue, and most facilities have dozens of operating rooms, altogether [MORE]

Eldercare Robots

Companion Able Hector
In the 1950’s, engineer/inventor/entrepreneur Joseph Engelberger built the first industrial robot in the US and [MORE]

Robot’s Fingertip More Sensitive than Human Touch

Bio Tac Robot Skin
It is called “Bio Tac,” and according to bioengineers at the University of Southern California it [MORE]

Robotic -180 degrees C “Smart Freezer”

Smart Freezer
With biorepository freezers, costs go up as temperatures go down.  And, until recently it has been close to [MORE]

MRI-Guided Surgical Robot

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

Two Assistance Robots for Hospitals

Hair Washing Robot
Today’s children, who have grown up with “Transformer” toys and videos about robots, may be conditioned to [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

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

Robotic Gripper, Not Like a Human Hand

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

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