POSTS TAGGED AS robots

Micro-Robots with Arms for Fluid Mixing

A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector
“Here, we [researchers at ETH Zurich, Switzerland] present a robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector (RAEE) system, comprising [MORE]

Perspective on Medical Robots

ReWalk exoskeleton robot
“There is an increasing range of applications for medical robots in health care, including the replacement of missing [MORE]

The Brains of Microbots

Electronic “Brains” Allow Microrobots to Walk Freely
“In a recent study published in Science Robotics, a team of researchers led by [MORE]

Artificial Pancreas that Shakes Off Attacking Immune Cells

MIT-Implantable-Device With a new approach, blocks the scar tissue (pictured) that usually develops around medical implants
“Researchers at MIT have developed [MORE]

Propelling Micro Robots in the Body

Magnetic Cilia to Propel Soft Biomedical Robots
“Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands have developed artificial cilia [MORE]

A Century of Robots

R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots
A 1921 play, “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” introduced the word “robot” to the world, and this piece tells [MORE]

Relay Robots in Hospital Service

Medical automation company Swisslog (US hqs, Bloomfield, CO) and robot maker Savioke (San Jose, CA) have collaborated to install autonomous [MORE]

Skin Cancer Detecting Robot

Demascope to detect melanona
Last year, Stanford researchers reported on an artificial intelligence technology called a “convoluted neural network” to screen images [MORE]

DNA Robots

LQian Cargo Sorting DNA Robot
In the 64 years that scientists have known about the structure of DNA, enormous knowledge has [MORE]

New Materials: New Medical Solutions

New medical technology owes much to materials science, as this piece illustrates with liquid crystal polymers for artificial muscles, and [MORE]

Kaiser’s Model Hospital at Garfield Innovation Center

Kaiser Permanente Innovation Center
In a former 37,000 sq. ft. warehouse, Kaiser Permanente created its Garfield Innovation Center (San Leandro, [MORE]

Artificial Muscles for Robots

robots with Artificial Muscle
“Electroactive” polymers, which can stretch many times their length in response to a variable electric current, [MORE]

Soft “Exosuit” for Physical Rehab

Softexosuit
“Biologically inspired engineers” at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a soft exosuit that functions to assist gait rehabilitation.  [MORE]

Disinfecting Robots for Hospital Housekeeping

Xenex UV-Disinfection System
Clostridium difficile is one of the most persistent pathogens in hospital acquired infections. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are [MORE]