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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias
Audrow Nash
18 Sep 2015
Transcript below
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
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...
One year later: Update from Leka, Robot Launch 2014 Grand Winner
Ladislas de Toldi and Leka
02 Jul 2015
Almost one year ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for Moti, a robotic toy that helps autistic children learn to regulate their own emotions through play. Leka cofounde...
Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui
Ron Vanderkley
26 Jun 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation, a task-oriented 4-...
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....
Robotic assistive devices for independent living
Kavita Krishnaswamy and Tim Oates
08 Jun 2015
Autonomy is the soul of independent daily living, and a variety of assistive devices already exist to help people with severe physical disabilities achieve this. But many of them are designed to be us...
Corindus Vascular Robotics goes public
Frank Tobe
01 Jun 2015
Corindus Vascular Robotics raised $42 million last week by offering 11 million shares at $3.80 and going public on the NYSE MKT exchange, a special market for small-cap growth companies....
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....
iPetCompanion lets you play with your pets via telepresence
Michael Savoie
22 May 2015
iPetCompanion have developed telepresence technology that allows you to manipulate toys so you can play with your pets while you're away. The team has installed the system in hospitals and animal sh...
Bionic athletes compete in disciplines drawn from everyday life
ETH Zurich
21 May 2015
By: Vanessa Bleich
Next year's Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition is to...
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...
Igniting a debate on legal, therapeutic and educational robotics
The benefits of assistive technologies are well known – reduced inefficiencies, low costs, available 24/7 and much more. But not so well known are the appropriate legal regulations that need to be ...
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....
Unpowered exoskeleton improves efficiency of human walking
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
08 Apr 2015
Humans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input ...
Video: Giving robots and prostheses a sense of touch
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
07 Apr 2015
The UCLA Biomechatronics Lab develops a language of touch that can be "felt" by computers and humans alike.
Research engineers and students in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Biomech...
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...
A bionic model is born
Open Bionics
17 Mar 2015
The personalisation of healthcare devices has been a growing trend in the maker-sphere. From gold-plated hearing aids, neon walking sticks, and sparkling blade prosthetics to 3D printed arm casts, peo...
Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?
Alan Winfield
09 Mar 2015
Imagine a swarm of microscopic robots that we inject into the vascular system: the swarm swims to the source of the problem, then either delivers therapeutics or undertakes microsurgery directly.
T...
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...
Robots for Humanity inspires
Andra Keay
12 Feb 2015
Henry Evans had a brain stem stroke in 2002 that left him quadriplegic. Since then he has turned to robotics to unlock his abilities. Robots For Humanity (R4H.org) is a project that chronicles Henry...
DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch
Open Source Robotics Foundation
11 Feb 2015
The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...
Should ownership influence the decision-making of a care robot?
Open Roboethics Initiative
11 Feb 2015
For the past few months, the Open Roboethics initiative have been exploring the topic of care robots. During one of our meetings, we got into a discussion about whether the ownership of a robot sho...
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...
Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again
NCCR Robotics
08 Jan 2015
A team from EPFL and NCCR Robotics lead by Profs Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine and Silvestro Micera published an article in Science today describing their e-dura implant that could revo...
Walking assistive devices for the elderly
Jeremy Olivier and NCCR Robotics
07 Jan 2015
When thinking about robots that can be used to care for the elderly, most people imagine humanoid robots that are meant to help with cooking, cleaning and socializing. But what if robots could be u...
ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
ETH Zurich
12 Dec 2014
ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 million ...
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...
Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids
Fabio Bergamin and ETH Zurich
18 Nov 2014
Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3D printing technology....
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Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle
Sabine Hauert
15 Nov 2014
Full transcript below.
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...
