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SRI International behind new robotic technology for Verb Surgical
Silicon Valley Robotics
14 Dec 2015
SRI Robotics has long been known for advancing robotics and delivering new technology platforms to the market. Last week they introduced another transformational robotic technology being brought to ...
The state of telepresence: Healthcare and telemedicine
Michael Savoie
20 Nov 2015
Telemedicine is a rapidly growing field and, with the aid of telepresence robots, is quickly gaining traction in hospitals and homes around the world....
Blue Belt Technologies acquired by Smith & Nephew for $275 million
Frank Tobe
03 Nov 2015
Smith & Nephew, a global medical tech conglomerate that is expanding into robotics-assisted surgeries, announced that they are paying $275 million to acquire Pittsburgh startup Blue Belt Technolog...
Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard
In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...
Teaching a brain-controlled robotic prosthetic to learn from its mistakes
NCCR Robotics
01 Oct 2015
Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) -- where brain waves captured by electrodes on the skin are used to control external devices such as a robotic prosthetic -- are a promising tool for helping people w...
Vecna’s Daniel Theobald: Setting standards for robots
Audrow Nash
22 Sep 2015
Vecna’s robotic logistics solutions are a family of autonomous mobile robots, built to operate within human-centric environments such as hospitals. In this in-depth interview, Daniel Theobald, the ...
Clinical trials begin for Russia’s first medical exoskeleton
Skolkovo Robotics
13 Aug 2015
Clinical trials of Russia’s first medical exoskeleton have begun in a Moscow hospital, marking the latest step in the Skolkovo-backed innovation’s battle to reach the market....
Beyond safety: Is robotic surgery sustainable?
Matt Beane
29 Jul 2015
This week, the “144” study on adverse events in robotic surgery made the rounds in media outlets such as the BBC, NBC and the MIT Tech review. An impressive group of researchers found that between...
WeRobot 2015 Panel 4: Regulating healthcare robots, with Drew Simshaw, Nicolas Terry, Kris Hauser and M.L. Cumming
Tech Policy Lab University of Washington
16 Jul 2015
Basic, pressing issues need to be addressed very soon to ensure that robots are developed that promote confidence among providers, patients, consumers, and investors. In this We Robot 2015 panel, t...
Surgical device maker Transenterix raises $50 million from IPO
Frank Tobe
16 Jun 2015
Transenterix raised $50 million from an IPO and market switch that transferred their stock from the over-the-counter market to the special small-cap MKT Exchange on the NYSE....
Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research: Deadline June 5
Andra Keay
28 May 2015
Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research grants for projects in 2016. Researchers at non-profit institutions world wide can apply. LOIs can be submitted until June 5....
Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data
Michael Savoie
20 May 2015
Revolve Robotics and Swymed have collaborated to create a HIPAA compliant telepresence device called Kubi that can stream medical data. This compliance is a big deal: no longer do MDs have to rel...
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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti
Audrow Nash
15 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...
Talking Machines: Developing effective medicine by predicting molecular activity, with George Dahl
Talking Machines
24 Apr 2015
In episode nine we talk with George Dahl, of the University of Toronto, about his work on the Merck molecular activity challenge on kaggle and speech recognition. George recently successfully defend...
How robots can help build better doctors
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Apr 2015
A young doctor leans over a patient who has been in a serious car accident and invariably must be experiencing pain. The doctor's trauma team examines the patient's pelvis and rolls her onto her side ...
OpenBionics prosthetic hands: Open source, affordable, lightweight, anthropomorphic
Minas Liarokapis, Agisilaos Zisimatos, George Kontoudis, Christoforos Mavrogiannis and Kostas Kyriakopoulos
09 Apr 2015
OpenΒionics is an open-source initiative for the development of affordable, light-weight, modular robot hands and prosthetic devices, and can be easily reproduced using off-the-shelf materials....
Intuitive Surgical da Vinci Surgical System gets big endorsement and new competition
Frank Tobe
23 Mar 2015
UPDATED 3/29/15 For over two years, Intuitive Surgical has been sued, tried, analyzed and criticized about the efficacy of their da Vinci surgical robots. But they have continued to thrive, grow and ...
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester
Audrow Nash
20 Mar 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...
Baxter goes to Oregon, to help bring robots to the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak
Open Source Robotics Foundation
17 Feb 2015
At the end of January, Baxter left OSRF for a stint in Corvallis, Oregon where he will be used in a project that is investigating the use of teleoperated robots in the treatment of highly contagious d...
How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?
Open Roboethics Initiative
13 Jan 2015
We have a tall order when it comes to dreaming up a trustworthy care robot: a robot could clean the house, find and fetch objects, and even keep seniors company. But if robots take on so many daily c...
Can a robot baby curb loneliness among Japan’s senior citizens? | TechInAsia
Hallie Siegel
13 Jan 2015
SoftBank’s hotly-anticipated robot companion, Pepper, touted as being capable of recognizing and responding to human emotions, won’t go on sale at the telco’s retail outlets until next month. Bu...
Aeon Scientific wins 2014 Swiss Technology Award
Michael Keller and ETH Zurich
26 Nov 2014
The cardiologist sits in the control room next to the operating theatre and uses a joystick to steer a catheter through the patient's blood vessel into the heart's chambers to treat the card...
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Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle
Sabine Hauert
15 Nov 2014
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In this episode, Sabine Hauert speaks with Travis Deyle, about his IROS-nominated work on RFID tags, his blog Hizook, and the career path that brought him from academia, to fou...
Novel robots for gait and arm rehabilitation: Interview with Robert Riener
In this pair of video lectures, Robert Riener presents his team's research efforts in the field of rehabilitation robotics, and describes the vision behind Cybathlon, the competition for robot-assist...
Open Bionics founder Joel Gibbard wins Young Design Engineer of the Year Award
Hallie Siegel
14 Oct 2014
Open Bionics founder, Joel Gibbard, won a prestigious award last week at the British Engineering Excellence Awards.
The awards celebrate UK companies and individuals that have shown the skills, in...
Nursing Grandma with a robot
Mark Stephen Meadows
13 Oct 2014
[tweetquote]All this talk about being replaced by robots is getting old.[/tweetquote]...
3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals
Joel Gibbard
02 Oct 2014
Our [tweetquote] 3D-printed prosthetic hand project has made the global finals of Intel's Make it Wearable competition![/tweetquote] Open Bionics came out of the Open Hand Project, where we developed ...
HelloSpoon: A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities
Luis Garcia
22 Sep 2014
Shaped like a baby elephant, HelloSpoon is a robot intended to help children and elderly with upper limb difficulties and special needs to have a fun and happy mealtime. The assistive robot ...
Transportation of medical equipment: Robots to replace couriers | Hospital Direct
Hallie Siegel
03 Sep 2014
DirectHopital.com describes how French Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes are using two robots, “Betty” and “Daisy”, to improve efficiency in delivering sterile endoscopes to the...
Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes
Aaron Horowitz and Sproutel
02 Sep 2014
Less than three campaign days left! Back Sproutel’s crowdfunding campaign to [tweetquote]help get robotic healthcare coach Jerry the Bear into the hands of kids with type 1 diabetes. [/tweetquote]...
ShanghAI Lectures: Tamas Haidegger “Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?”
Nathan Labhart
28 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08
In this guest lecture, Tamás Haidegger from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary, talks about Computer-Integrated Surgery, giv...
Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
07 Aug 2014
A research group led by electrical and computer engineering expert Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface that could enable users to control a pair of robotic legs with thei...
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Ekso Bionics, with Russ Angold
Audrow Nash
26 Jul 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Russ Angold, co-founder and CTO of Ekso Bionics, about the wearable bionic suit, Ekso. This suit enables individuals with any amount of lower extremity weakness ...
3 exoskeleton companies go public
Frank Tobe
14 Jul 2014
First came Ekso Bionics with an alternative public offering that netted $30.3 million; then Cyberdyne let its stock be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; and last week the WSJ reported that ReWalk Ro...
Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
10 Jul 2014
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