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Interview with Andrea Thomaz (co-founder of Diligent Robotics): socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals
We sat down with Dr. Thomaz to talk about Moxi, how to manage people’s expectations about robots, and advice for young people and women in robotics.
16 April 2022, by
Sonia Roberts and Women In Robotics
ep.
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
Abate De Mey
ep.
264
podcast
Bio-inspired Soft Robots for Healthcare, with Yong-Lae Park
In this episode, Marwa Mohammed Alaa Eldean Eldiwiny interviews Yong-Lae Park, Associate Professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, about the bio-inspired design and manufacture of soft...
08 July 2018, by
Marwa ElDiwiny
ep.
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
Abate De Mey
ep.
244
podcast
Robot Pediatric Coach, with Ayanna Howard
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about her work to help children with the movement disorder cerebral palsy. Howard discusses ho...
30 September 2017, by
Audrow Nash
A robotic doctor is gearing up for action
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...
29 June 2017, by
Horizon Magazine
Shrinking data for surgical training
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...
21 June 2017, by
MIT News
Sports-concussion dilemma: Robot doctors could be the answer in rural America
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...
07 April 2017, by
UT Southwestern
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
MIT News
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
Columbia Engineering
ep.
224
podcast
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
Christina Brester
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
Siao Tin Soh
The state of telepresence: Healthcare and telemedicine
Telemedicine is a rapidly growing field and, with the aid of telepresence robots, is quickly gaining traction in hospitals and homes around the world....
20 November 2015, by
Michael Savoie
ShanghAI Lectures: Hiroshi Yokoi “Future Trend”
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In this guest lecture, Hiroshi Yokoi from University of Electro-Communication, Chofu, Japan, talks about prosthetic robot hands, EMG devices, bio-fee...
06 February 2014, by
Nathan Labhart
ShanghAI Lectures: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In this guest lecture, Wenwei Yu from Chiba University, Japan, introduces his approach to assistive technology and talks about (simulation) experime...
30 January 2014, by
Nathan Labhart
Rehabilitation support robot “R-cloud” makes muscle movement visible
Associate Professor Toshiaki Tsuji's Laboratory at Saitama University has developed R-cloud, a rehabilitation support robot that enables users to view how their own muscles move during rehabilitation ...
05 December 2013, by
DigInfo TV
Kelly the Robot helps kids tackle autism | WebMD
Using a kid-friendly robot during behavioral therapy sessions may help some children with autism gain better social skills, a preliminary study suggests.
The study, of 19 children with autism sp...
01 May 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
