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    podcast

    Going out on a Bionic Limb, with Joel Gibbard

    Joel Gibbard, co-founder of Open Bionics dives deep into their creative, imagination-capturing prosthetic limbs.
    21 December 2022, by
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    343

    podcast

    A Robot You Swallow, with Torrey Smith

    Torrey Smith discusses a robot you swallow that livestreams your digestive system for medical procedures such as endoscopies.
    03 January 2022, by

    RoMi-H: Bringing robot traffic control to healthcare
    Imagine for a moment that a road is used only for a single car and driver. Everything is smooth and wonderful. Then you wake up from that utopian dream and remember that our road networks have multipl...
    15 February 2021, by

    CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers
    Involving potential users of a particular technology in the research and development (R&D) process is a very powerful way to maximise success when such technology is deployed in the real world. In add...
    11 November 2020, by
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    319

    podcast

    Micro-scale Surgical Robots, with Eric Diller

    Robohub Podcast · Micro-scale Surgical Robots In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Eric Diller, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, on wireless micro-scale robots that could event...
    23 September 2020, by
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    293

    podcast

    A Robot to Help with Artificial Insemination, with Zhuoran Zhang

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Zhuoran Zhang, PhD student at the University of Toronto, about how robots can be used to assist in artificial insemination. Zhang discusses how precise robotic ...
    02 September 2019, by



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    286

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    Halodi Robotics’ EVEr3: A Full-size Humanoid Robot, with Bernt Børnich

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bernt Børnich, CEO, CTO, and Co-founder of Halodi Robotics, about Eve (EVEr3), a general purpose full-size humanoid robot, capable of a wide variety of tasks. ...
    13 May 2019, by
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    254

    podcast

    Collaborative Systems for Drug Discovery, with Peter Harris

    In this episode, Abate interviews Peter Harris from HighRes Biosolutions about automation in the field of drug discovery. At HighRes Biosolutions they are developing modular robotic systems that work ...
    18 February 2018, by

    Multi-directional gravity assist harness helps rehabilitation
    When training to regain movement after stroke or spinal cord injury (SCI), patients must once again learn how to keep their balance during walking movements. Current clinical methods support the weigh...
    21 July 2017, by

    Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
    A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
    14 July 2017, by

    How to reduce Zika using flying robots
    Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at wo...
    15 June 2017, by
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    236

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    IASP 2016: Prostheses and Finding Shoes, with Vadim Kotenev and Vagan Martirosyan

    In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Vadim...
    09 June 2017, by and

    Researcher to develop bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee for prosthetics
    A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics La...
    01 June 2017, by

    Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
    Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...
    23 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

    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...
    10 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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    224

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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

    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

    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

    Robots that may help you in your silver age
    By 2020, a quarter of Europeans will be over 60. In their silver age, many would like to stay in their homes and will require care from family or social workers....
    07 April 2016, by

    Understanding joint impedance with a knee exoskeleton
    When designing exoskeletons for rehabilitation of patients after spinal cord injury or stroke, a constant concern is creating them to be as natural as possible to best enable user training to rebuild ...
    09 February 2016, by

    Robotics, AI and automation in “Forbes 30 under 30”
    [clear] Forbes has once again expanded their "30 under 30" list this year to celebrate the achievements of the up and coming; the main list now covers 20 different sectors, and an inaugural E...
    26 January 2016, by
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    199

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    Microrobots for Harvesting Crystals, with Simone Schürle

    Transcript below. In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Simone Schürle, advisor and co-founder of MagnebotiX, about using small robots to harvest crystals. These crystals can be used to infer at...
    09 January 2016, by

    Body-enhancing exoskeletons could be stepping into industrial trials next year
    by Jon Cartwright Wearable technology uses electric motors and springs to augment the strength and balance of the human body. It has long been the subject of military research, but now engineers be...
    01 December 2015, by

     
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