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    On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
    Bruno Maisonnier at TedExConcorde. Photo credit: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ. Last week I dropped by Aldebaran’s studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. ...
    24 June 2014, by

    Exoskeleton with haptic sensors helps paralysed man to kick off World Cup
    VIDEO UPDATE 06/13 It’s June 2014 and all eyes are on Brazil. If you’re a football fan then June 12th is the day you’ve been waiting for, but eagle-eyed technophiles are likely to have noticed o...
    12 June 2014, by

    Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science
    During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic young person wearing a brain-controlle...
    12 June 2014, by

    Titan Medical secures $34.8 million from public offering
    Titan Medical, a publicly-traded Canadian start-up company developing a robotic surgical system for minimally-invasive surgeries, announced the completion of two rounds of public offering totally $34....
    23 May 2014, by

    Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke
    People say the darndest things! And some of those statements add to the puzzle that is Willow Garage....
    14 April 2014, by

    The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies
    Dan Bacher has always been fascinated by two things: electrical engineering and neuroscience. While these interests may seem divergent, the synthesis of them led him to Brown University’s BrainGate ...
    01 April 2014, by and



    Introducing the Cybathlon
    As we have been enjoying amazing scenes from Sochi, Russia where disabled athletes have been completing in the winter Paralympics, researchers in Switzerland have been considering a new route for athl...
    24 March 2014, by

    Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
    Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology A paper in Nature Communications earlier this year reports on "bio-bots". These tiny machines inspired by sperm, are ...
    10 March 2014, by and

    Engineers build brain-controlled music player
    Imagine if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri and his team of researchers from the Department of Systems and Control Engineering and th...
    04 March 2014, by and

    Mazor Robotics is gaining momentum
    Mazor Robotics, producer of the Renaissance Guidance System for spine and neuro surgeries, reported favorable earnings for the 4th quarter and for the whole year of 2013. 4Q revenue was up 111% ove...
    03 March 2014, by

    In the news: Intuitive Surgical
    Mini-tender offer: TRC Capital Corp, a private firm founded by a Canadian securities lawyer, has made a mini-tender offer to purchase 250,000 shares of Intuitive Surgical stock at a price slightly be...
    27 January 2014, by

    Outreach activities: Making nanoparticle robots to ‘treat cancer’
    We would always have kids come around the robotics lab where I did my PhD. They would learn about robots and we would show them videos and demos of bio-inspired robots that could fly, jump and swarm. ...
    29 December 2013, by

    Mazor Robotics on a roll
    Mazor Robotics’ stock (NASDAQ:MZOR and TASE:MZOR) has steadily rolled up 260% year-to-date....
    25 November 2013, by

    Lynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”
    I found the plenary speeches at IROS to be especially interesting. Marc Raibert gave an entertaining talk on the robots being developed at Boston Dynamics. It's encouraging to see that robots are beco...
    13 November 2013, by

    Affordable Care Act
    As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
    18 October 2013, by

    MAKO Surgical sells to Stryker for $1.65 billion
    ... Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK) to acquire MAKO Surgical Corp (NASDAQ:MAKO) for $1.65 billion - an action which brought MAKO’s stock from $16 to $29 in one fell swoop. ... Stryker is a medical t...
    25 September 2013, by

    Medical robotic systems market to reach $13.6 billion by 2018
    ... The global medical robotic systems market was worth $5.48 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach $13.6 billion in 2018, growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 12.6% from 2012. Surgical ro...
    13 September 2013, by

    This robotic prosthetic hand can be made for just $1000
    The Dextrus hand is a robotic hand that can be put together for well under £650 ($1000) and offers much of the functionality of a human hand. Existing prosthetic hands are magnificent devices, capa...
    11 September 2013, by

    Crowdsourcing new strategies for cancer treatment: Towards swarming nanobots
    NanoDoc is our new online game to crowdsource the design of nanomedicine. The game allows bioengineers and the general public to imagine new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer....
    04 September 2013, by

    World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for ‘imperceptible electronics’
    Researchers from Asia and Europe have developed the world's lightest and thinnest organic circuits, which in the future could be used in a range of healthcare applications. Lighter than a feather, ...
    29 July 2013, by

    Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery
    Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...
    06 May 2013, by

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