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    266

    podcast

    Towards using Micro and Nano Robots in the Human Body, with Peer Fischer

    In this episode, Marwa ElDiwiny interview Peer Fisher, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the Director of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck I...
    06 August 2018, by
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    260

    podcast

    Hyundai’s Exoskeletons, with Sangin Park

    In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Sangin Park, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, about exoskeletons. Park describes three exoskeleton prototypes: one for helping workers reduce back pain, ...
    14 May 2018, by
    ep.

    256

    podcast

    Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić

    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matarić, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics. Socially ass...
    19 March 2018, by
    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
    ep.

    250

    podcast

    Learning Prosthesis Control Parameters, with Helen Huang

    In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Helen Huang, Joint Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State, about a method of tuning powered lower limb prosthes...
    24 December 2017, by
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    248

    podcast

    Semi-active Prostheses, with Peter Adamczyk

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Adamczyk, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on semi-active foot and ankle prostheses. The difference is that active below-knee p...
    24 November 2017, by



    Brain surgery: The robot efficacy test?
    The internet hummed last week with reports that “Humans Still Make Better Surgeons Than Robots.” Stanford University Medical Center set off the tweetstorm with its seemingly scathing repo...
    02 November 2017, by
    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

    Robotic system monitors specific neurons
    by Anne Trafton Recording electrical signals from inside a neuron in the living brain can reveal a great deal of information about that neuron’s function and how it coordinates with other cells in ...
    04 September 2017, by

    Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Cory Kidd from Catalia Health
    Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
    02 September 2017, by

    Long-term control of brain-computer interfaces by users with locked-in syndrome
    Using Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) as a way to give people with locked-in syndrome back reliable communication and control capabilities has long been a futuristic trope of medical dramas and sci-f...
    28 August 2017, by

    New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves
    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...
    09 August 2017, by

    Smaller, smarter, softer robotic arm for endoscopic surgery
    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...
    04 August 2017, by

    Robot-driven device improves crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy
    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...
    27 July 2017, by

    SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
    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...
    26 July 2017, 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

    New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: CYBERLEGs++
    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...
    09 July 2017, by

    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

    Snake robots slither into our hearts, literally
    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...
    27 June 2017, by

    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

    Trusting robots with our lives
    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...
    19 June 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

    Are robots the future of precision lung surgery?
    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...
    13 June 2017, by
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    236

    podcast

    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

    Growing healthy resilient biological tissues on humanoid robots
    Musculoskeletal robots may one day assist the growth of replacement tissue grafts for transplant patients....
    12 May 2017, by

    Robots pick up the challenge of home care needs
    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 ...
    12 April 2017, by

    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

    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

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