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    Putting data in the hands of doctors
    Computer scientist Regina Barzilay is working with MIT students and medical doctors in an ambitious bid to revolutionize cancer care. She is relying on a tool largely unrecognized in the oncology wor...
    17 February 2017, by

    Cargo drones deliver in the Amazon rainforest
    The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines an...
    16 February 2017, by

    5 global problems that AI could help us solve
    There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
    10 February 2017, by

    Technical challenges in machine ethics
    Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...
    08 February 2017, by

    Wearable AI that can detect the tone of a conversation
    It’s a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions like Asperger’s, this can make social situations extremely stressf...
    01 February 2017, by

    Soft exosuit economies: Understanding the costs of lightening the load
    Last year, Harvard’s soft exosuit team provided first proof-of-concept results showing that its wearable robot could lower energy expenditure in healthy people walking with a load on their back. Mad...
    30 January 2017, by



    Open Bionics partners with NHS for feasibility study to develop hands for amputees
    Open Bionics is to be awarded to £100,000 through SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England initiative, as part of its new challenge to fund innovations that will support children living with disability and lo...
    19 January 2017, by

    Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes
    Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather th...
    17 January 2017, by and

    Implantable microrobots: Manufacturing intricate biocompatible micromachines
    A team of researchers led by Biomedical Engineering Professor Sam Sia at Columbia Engineering has developed a way to manufacture microscale machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in t...
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    A Wearable Robotic Extra-Finger for Grasp Compensation, with Domenico Prattichizzo

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Domenico Prattichizzo, Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena and Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova in Italy, about a ...
    07 January 2017, by

    A report on the ELS Workshop 2016
    The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Social Robots in Healthcare and Education Workshop (also called ELS Workshop) was held in Yokohama the 14th Nov 2016 during the JSAI-isAI Conference. The works...
    06 January 2017, by , and
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    Speech-Controlled Wheelchair, with Vladimir Stanovov

    In this episode, Christina Brester interviews Vladimir Stanovov, PhD student and researcher at the Siberian State Aerospace University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). Stanovov speaks about a speech-controlled ...
    23 December 2016, by

    The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
    An emerging need China’s once abundant labor force has contributed to the country’s astonishing economic success in recent decades. But in the coming decades, the percentage of retirees relativ...
    22 December 2016, by

    Robots at your service: Empowering healthy aging at European Robotics Week, 2016
    The European Robotics Week in 2016 took place from 18 to 22 November in several countries including The Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Serbia and many more. This event has been occ...
    08 December 2016, by

    Students develop cheap 3D printing technique for soft robotics
    By Jurjen Slump. Students of Delft University of Technology have developed a new add-on for a 3D printer that can cast silicones inside a 3D printed shell during the printing process. This new, and...
    09 November 2016, by

    Robot co-workers in the operating room
    Robots won’t steal our jobs, but they will help us out conducting tiring and dangerous tasks, enabling humans to focus on creative and teaching activities where fantasy and sensitivity are needed. T...
    26 October 2016, by

    Automation should complement professional expertise, not replace it
    Will your next doctor be an app? A cost-cutting NHS wants more patients to act as “self-carers,” with some technologized assistance. A series of flowcharts and phone trees might tell parents whose...
    19 October 2016, by

    It’s not only engineers who work in robotics
    Robotics has always been an interdisciplinary field - one that integrates knowledge from computer science, mechanical, electrical, controls, and other areas of engineering. But as robots move out of f...
    12 October 2016, by

    Robots can successfully imitate human motions in the operating room
    By: Marcus Banks The nursing assistant for your next trip to the hospital might be a robot. This is the implication of research recently published by Dr. Elena De Momi and colleagues in the open a...
    26 September 2016, by
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    ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ekaterina Bereziy, Founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, about exoskeletons for the disabled and for rehabilitation. Transcript below....
    02 September 2016, by

    Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction
    Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk. The AI computer s...
    30 August 2016, by
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    Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to the amputation of both of his legs below the knee and how th...
    20 August 2016, by

    Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first
    Scientists in Japan reportedly saved a woman’s life by applying artificial intelligence to help them diagnose a rare form of cancer. Faced with a 60-year-old woman whose cancer diagnosis was unrespo...
    19 August 2016, by

    Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine
    Picture the scene: one day you wake up in a hospital with no memory of what happened and you discover in horror that your left hand is no longer there. The doctors say you’ve been in a car accident ...
    17 August 2016, by and

    Survey: Evaluate ethics of health related privacy with care robots
    Future Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) should be safe, but patients also have a right to privacy, liberty and social contact. The survey investigates, in a hypothetical scenario, how Annie's SAR s...
    12 August 2016, by and

    As Intuitive Surgical continues to shine, competitors are entering the fray
    Robotic surgery has long been dominated by Intuitive Surgical which has placed more than 3,600 of its da Vinci machines in hospitals around the world. Nevertheless, an increasing number of new player...
    05 August 2016, by

    Microswimmer robot chains can decouple and reconnect in magnetic field
    Drexel University researchers, led by MinJun Kim, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, have successfully pulled off a feat that both sci-fi fans and Michael Phelps could appreciate. Using a...
    02 August 2016, by

    MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor
    Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....
    11 July 2016, by

    Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury
    What's the biggest benefit for using collaborative robots? It's not better efficiency. It's not the extra hours the robot can work in a shift. It's not even having improved consistency across your pr...
    27 May 2016, by and

    Developing cost-effective, capable, surgical robots with a sense of “touch”
    This article was first published on IEC e-tech. Robotic‑assisted surgery involves a surgeon using a computer‑assisted electro‑mechanical device to carry out complex and technically demanding...
    24 May 2016, by

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