POSTS TAGGED AS robotics

Microrobots for Drug Delivery

Korean engineers are experimenting with microrobots that can move through blood vessels by means of magnetic fields.  Not only do [MORE]

Medicine in the year 2060

Physicist Michio Kaku predicts how today’s breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare-organ regeneration, nanoparticle drug delivery, implantable robots, “smart” bathrooms, [MORE]

Perspective on Nanomedicine

You’ll have to go to the journal Molecular Pharmaceuticals to get the full text of this nanomedicine review, but [MORE]

Toyota’s Hospital and Home Health Robots

Between Toyota Memorial Hospital and a robotics program at Fujita Health University Hospital, the Toyota Motor Company is [MORE]

Free Software for Simulating Human Motion

Bioengineers at Stanford have created a simulation program for human motion that is useful for such things as designing [MORE]

Automated Cell Culture

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch would be amazed at today’s robotic laboratories, parallel synthesis, high throughput screening, microarrays and [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]

A “Silent Talk” Robot

What would it take for a paralyzed person to mentally move a robot around a room that was 62 [MORE]

Robots as Half the US Labor Force

“In two years there will be 1.2 million robots working on Earth, that is one robot per 5,000 humans. As [MORE]

Swisslog and Adept Technology Partner on Hospital Robots

Two companies specializing in healthcare robotics-Swisslog (North American offices in Denver, CO) and Adept Technology, Inc. (Pleasanton, [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]

“Lovotic” Robots

It might be more likely that your robot could love you more than you could love your robot.  But in [MORE]

Hair Restoration Robot

Hair restoration is a cosmetic procedure, but in a sense it borders on regenerative medicine, similar to a transplant [MORE]

Intubation Robot in Clinical Trials

Surgical patients under full sedation typically have a breathing tube inserted to manage their airways.  Inserting that tube may [MORE]

Gesture-Based Computer Commands

This is the first Bachelor of Science thesis I’ve found for Tagline, but it is fascinating in terms of [MORE]

What’s New in Wheelchairs?

Well, did you hear this one?  Three wheelchairs rolled into a bar. . . .   Yes, GeckoSystems (Conyers, GA) [MORE]

Robot for IV Cancer Therapy

Getting the right mix of chemotherapy drugs, properly diluted, in a sterile IV bag, without contamination, can be a [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 Toys for Autism Analysis

Hybridizing research in computer science, robotics, and psychiatry, professor Nikolaos Papenikolopoulos heads a project at the University of Minnesota [MORE]

“TriageBot”

Imagine a reasonably near-term time when ambulatory patients arriving at an ER check in at an electronic kiosk, sit [MORE]