POSTS TAGGED AS robots

Piezoelectric Skin

Piezoelectric Taxels
By creating arrays of thousands of piezotronic transistors with zinc oxide nanowires embedded in a polymer, engineers [MORE]

Honda and Sekisui House Collaborating on Smart Homes

Honda-Sekisui House Walking assistant
Honda is a familiar name in the American car market, but it also has [MORE]

MEMS Pressure Sensors

A key problem that has to be overcome in designing tiny pressure sensors (as those used in surgical robots) [MORE]

A Common Wireless Control System for Mobile Robots in Life Science Laboratory

Authors; H. Liu, N. Stoll , S. Junginger, K. Thurow

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]

Robotic Assistants

Office Bot Robot
Telepresence robots have had limited use to date, in part because Wi-Fi and cellular services have restricted [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]

MUSING – The Autonomous Hospital

The Defense Department has been doing R&D work on autonomous vehicles-remotely controlled tanks, pilotless “Predator” aircraft and the like.  Largest [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]

Telesurgical Robots

Using software developed by the University of Washington’s Biorobotics Lab and SRI, operators at nine different locations (in the US, [MORE]

Intuitive Robots

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

Sanitizing Robots

Strenis Disinfectant Robot
Several hospitals in the UK and Europe are employing “Sterinis” robots to sanitize patient areas.  One robot sprays [MORE]

Sidney Garfield Health Care Innovation Center

Testing Technology
Kaiser Permanente has opened its Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, CA to conduct tests on medical [MORE]