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New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves
MIT News
09 Aug 2017
More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can also disrupt sleep. Diagnosing and monitoring these conditions usually requires a...
Smaller, smarter, softer robotic arm for endoscopic surgery
Wyss Institute
04 Aug 2017
By Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications
Flexible endoscopes can snake through narrow passages to treat difficult to reach areas of the body. However, once they arrive at their target, these devices re...
Robot-driven device improves crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy
Columbia Engineering
27 Jul 2017
In the U.S., 3.6 out of 1000 school-aged children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). Their symptoms include abnormal gait patterns which results in joint degeneration over time. Slow walking spee...
SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
MIT News
26 Jul 2017
Singapore and MIT have been at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development. First, there were self-driving golf buggies. Then, an autonomous electric car. Now, leveraging similar technology, MIT a...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: CYBERLEGs++
SPARC
09 Jul 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
A robotic doctor is gearing up for action
Horizon Magazine
29 Jun 2017
A robotic doctor that can be controlled hundreds of kilometres away by a human counterpart is gearing up for action. Getting a check-up from a robot may sound like something from a sci-fi film, but sc...
Snake robots slither into our hearts, literally
Oliver Mitchell
27 Jun 2017
The biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden describes how the snake became the most cursed of all beasts: “you shall walk on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.” The rep...
Shrinking data for surgical training
MIT News
21 Jun 2017
Laparoscopy is a surgical technique in which a fiber-optic camera is inserted into a patient’s abdominal cavity to provide a video feed that guides the surgeon through a minimally invasive procedure...
Trusting robots with our lives
Oliver Mitchell
19 Jun 2017
The key takeaway from Tuesday’s RobotLabNYC forum, on “Exploring The Autonomous Future,” was humans are the key to robot adoption. Dr. Howard Morgan of First Round Capital expressed to the audie...
Are robots the future of precision lung surgery?
Anna Johansson
13 Jun 2017
No matter how great a surgeon is, robotic assistance can bring a higher level of precision to the operating table. The ability to remotely operate a robot that can hold precision instruments greatly i...
Growing healthy resilient biological tissues on humanoid robots
Kassie Perlongo
12 May 2017
Musculoskeletal robots may one day assist the growth of replacement tissue grafts for transplant patients....
Robots pick up the challenge of home care needs
Peter Feuilherade
12 Apr 2017
This article was first published on the IEC e-tech website.
Advances in sensors have increased the ability of assistive robots to perform domestic handling and mobility assistance tasks as well as ...
Sports-concussion dilemma: Robot doctors could be the answer in rural America
UT Southwestern
07 Apr 2017
From bustling cities to tiny farming communities, the bright lights of the local stadium are common beacons to the Friday night ritual of high school football. But across the sprawling stretches of ru...
Putting data in the hands of doctors
MIT News
17 Feb 2017
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...
Open Bionics partners with NHS for feasibility study to develop hands for amputees
Kassie Perlongo
19 Jan 2017
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...
Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Jan 2017
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...
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A Wearable Robotic Extra-Finger for Grasp Compensation, with Domenico Prattichizzo
Audrow Nash
07 Jan 2017
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 ...
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Speech-Controlled Wheelchair, with Vladimir Stanovov
Christina Brester
23 Dec 2016
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 ...
The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
Siao Tin Soh
22 Dec 2016
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...
Robot co-workers in the operating room
Elena De Momi
26 Oct 2016
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...
It’s not only engineers who work in robotics
Hallie Siegel
12 Oct 2016
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...
Robots can successfully imitate human motions in the operating room
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
26 Sep 2016
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...
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ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ekaterina Bereziy, Founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, about exoskeletons for the disabled and for rehabilitation.
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Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction
Robohub Editors
30 Aug 2016
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...
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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr
Audrow Nash
20 Aug 2016
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...
Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first
Owen A Johnson
19 Aug 2016
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...
Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine
Claudio Castellini and Frontiers in Neurorobotics
17 Aug 2016
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 ...
Survey: Evaluate ethics of health related privacy with care robots
Dieter Vanderelst and Jurgen Willems
12 Aug 2016
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...
As Intuitive Surgical continues to shine, competitors are entering the fray
Frank Tobe
05 Aug 2016
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...
Microswimmer robot chains can decouple and reconnect in magnetic field
Robohub Editors
02 Aug 2016
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...
MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor
CSAIL MIT
11 Jul 2016
Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....
Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
27 May 2016
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...
Developing cost-effective, capable, surgical robots with a sense of “touch”
Peter Feuilherade
24 May 2016
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...
Nature inspires new generation of robot brains
Horizon Magazine
11 May 2016
by Rex Merrifield
Animals have evolved sophisticated ways of processing sensory data to make sense of their surroundings. Now, robotics researchers are drawing inspiration from biological processes...
Octopus points to the future for keyhole surgery
Horizon Magazine
02 May 2016
by Rex Merrifield
Keyhole, or minimally invasive, surgery can offer many benefits over more traditional, open operations, including reduced risk of infections, quicker recovery times and less scarrin...
Indego joins Ekso with FDA exoskeleton approvals
Frank Tobe
14 Mar 2016
Indego is the result of 10 years of development by engineers at Vanderbilt University, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 2012 it was licensed to Parker Hann...
