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Robots on the Brain

Highly Maneuverable Magnetically Controlled Miniature Robots
“Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed miniature robots that are highly maneuverable, and [MORE]

Total Laboratory Automation, an Update

Total laboratory automation
Many of our readers will be familiar with total laboratory automation; this piece is a nice catch-up.  “While [MORE]

Disinfecting Robots, Update

Ava Robotics UV disinfecting robot
Disinfecting robots for cleaning hospital rooms have been around for at least a decade, though they’ve [MORE]

Hospital Robots

Robots for material management
Hospital’s materials management is largely a matter of having the right stuff, at the right place, at [MORE]

Trends from the CES

Samsung Bot Care and Bot Handy – shown at CES
Always a good show, and even if this year’s was virtual [MORE]

Robotic Assist for Overflow Healthcare Units

Pvillion – self-erecting structures
“As part of its Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, researchers from New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [MORE]

Magnetically Controlled Microrobots

Mechanically interlocked 3D multi-material micromachines
Engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have developed microbots that can swim [MORE]

Autonomous Colonoscopy

Using robotics to improve colonoscopy
There are several STORM labs around the world (an acronym for Science and Technology of Robotics [MORE]

Update on “Total Laboratory Automation”

ABB and Texas Medical Center Lab Automation
Medical laboratories are now entering the second generation of automation.  Robots are the heart [MORE]

“Robo RXN”

RoboRXN. Automating Chemical Synthesis
“In a recent news release, the research arm of IBM announced that their Zurich team has developed [MORE]

The “Mini Me” Surgical Robot

Mini RCM – cutting size of surgical robots
“Teleoperated surgical robots are becoming commonplace in operating rooms, but many are massive [MORE]

Robotics Research and Covid-19

Medical personnel test for corona virus outside an emergency structure
Wars and pandemics, awful as they are, always have spurred innovation, [MORE]

First Surgical Robot for Aneurysms

Robot-assisted brain surgery
“In this study, Canadian researchers report the results of the first robotic brain vascular procedures. They used a [MORE]

A Robot that Draws Blood and Inserts Catheters

Robot draws blood accurately
“As healthcare staff can find it difficult to see the vein they are attempting to access, complications [MORE]