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Video: Autonomous robot surgery on deformable tissue phantoms
Automating repetitive surgical subtasks such as cutting and debridement can facilitate supervised tele-surgery, and reduce surgeon fatigue and procedure times. Programming these tasks can be difficu...
Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandpa?
Open Roboethics Initiative
11 Nov 2014
One of the driving forces of social, interactive robotics is the issue of impending labour shortage, which is projected to be one of the major and inevitable consequences of the ageing population phe...
Novel robots for gait and arm rehabilitation: Interview with Robert Riener
In this pair of video lectures, Robert Riener presents his team's research efforts in the field of rehabilitation robotics, and describes the vision behind Cybathlon, the competition for robot-assist...
Open Bionics founder Joel Gibbard wins Young Design Engineer of the Year Award
Hallie Siegel
14 Oct 2014
Open Bionics founder, Joel Gibbard, won a prestigious award last week at the British Engineering Excellence Awards.
The awards celebrate UK companies and individuals that have shown the skills, in...
Nursing Grandma with a robot
Mark Stephen Meadows
13 Oct 2014
[tweetquote]All this talk about being replaced by robots is getting old.[/tweetquote]...
Registration now open for Cybathlon 2016
NCCR Robotics
09 Oct 2014
Full registration for the Cybathlon, a sporting event for disabled athletes using robotic assistive technologies is now open. The event will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 8th October 2016....
Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2014
The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup.
Brad Nelson heads th...
3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals
Joel Gibbard
02 Oct 2014
Our [tweetquote] 3D-printed prosthetic hand project has made the global finals of Intel's Make it Wearable competition![/tweetquote] Open Bionics came out of the Open Hand Project, where we developed ...
HelloSpoon: A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities
Luis Garcia
22 Sep 2014
Shaped like a baby elephant, HelloSpoon is a robot intended to help children and elderly with upper limb difficulties and special needs to have a fun and happy mealtime. The assistive robot ...
ReWalk IPO gets $36 million; Corindus private placement gets $26.6
Frank Tobe
15 Sep 2014
ReWalk, the Israeli developer of exoskeletons, joins Ekso and Cyberdyne as publicly-traded companies on international stock exchanges. Their IPO Friday sold 3 million shares at $12 per share. The stoc...
Transportation of medical equipment: Robots to replace couriers | Hospital Direct
Hallie Siegel
03 Sep 2014
DirectHopital.com describes how French Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes are using two robots, “Betty” and “Daisy”, to improve efficiency in delivering sterile endoscopes to the...
Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes
Aaron Horowitz and Sproutel
02 Sep 2014
Less than three campaign days left! Back Sproutel’s crowdfunding campaign to [tweetquote]help get robotic healthcare coach Jerry the Bear into the hands of kids with type 1 diabetes. [/tweetquote]...
ShanghAI Lectures: Tamas Haidegger “Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?”
Nathan Labhart
28 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08
In this guest lecture, Tamás Haidegger from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary, talks about Computer-Integrated Surgery, giv...
Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
07 Aug 2014
A research group led by electrical and computer engineering expert Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface that could enable users to control a pair of robotic legs with thei...
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Ekso Bionics, with Russ Angold
Audrow Nash
26 Jul 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Russ Angold, co-founder and CTO of Ekso Bionics, about the wearable bionic suit, Ekso. This suit enables individuals with any amount of lower extremity weakness ...
New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
18 Jul 2014
http://youtu.be/FTJW5YSRZhw
Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. The device, worn around one’s wrist, works essentially like two extra fing...
3 exoskeleton companies go public
Frank Tobe
14 Jul 2014
First came Ekso Bionics with an alternative public offering that netted $30.3 million; then Cyberdyne let its stock be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; and last week the WSJ reported that ReWalk Ro...
Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
10 Jul 2014
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Robots automate testing for bacteria, including coliforms
DigInfo TV
08 Jul 2014
http://youtu.be/hVyw9qN6HGY
Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research, start-ups, business, and education from around the world. Learn more abo...
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Computer-Assisted Surgery, with Karol Miller
Ron Vanderkley
27 Jun 2014
In this episode Ron Vanderkley speaks to Prof. Karol Miller, Director of the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab at the University of Western Australia, about medical robotics and how doctors and pat...
On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
Mark Stephen Meadows
24 Jun 2014
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. ...
Noonee: The chairless Chair
NCCR Robotics
20 Jun 2014
Noonee® is a new Start Up company coming out of research in robotics in Switzerland. Aimed at solving healthcare problems within the manufacturing industry, noonee adopts a Chairless Chair® approac...
Exoskeleton with haptic sensors helps paralysed man to kick off World Cup
NCCR Robotics
12 Jun 2014
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...
Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science
Hallie Siegel
12 Jun 2014
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...
Titan Medical secures $34.8 million from public offering
Frank Tobe
23 May 2014
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....
Technology to help adults age in place just a few years away | The Star
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2014
“There still is a stigma with seniors and this idea of them being averse to technology,” says Rosalie Wang, a post doctorate fellow who works in robotics at Toronto Rehab. “The truth is that, li...
Robot helps 94-year-old Italian grandmother live independently at home
the European Commission
05 May 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pTPrA9nH6E
EU invests in new technology to support silver generation
At 94, Grandma Lea could not live alone anymore, but she wanted to stay at home. She still doe...
Recent robotics-related IPOs
Frank Tobe
26 Apr 2014
Since late November, 2013 there have been three robotic companies that have gone public on U.S. and global stock exchanges: Medtech, Ekso Bionics and Cyberdyne....
#Robots14 event “From Imagination to Market” is itself imaginative
Frank Tobe
22 Apr 2014
An adage in tech funding is "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
Aaron Horowitz (left) and Hannah Chung (in the bear suit on the right) boost that concept - and their visibility - by weari...
Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke
Frank Tobe
14 Apr 2014
People say the darndest things! And some of those statements add to the puzzle that is Willow Garage....
Intuitive Surgical upgrades da Vinci surgical system and recalls tools used by them
Frank Tobe
06 Apr 2014
Intuitive Surgical announced FDA clearance and US introduction of their new da Vinci Xi Surgical System which has a movable overhead architecture rather than the fixed floor-mounted existing systems.
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The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
01 Apr 2014
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 ...
Introducing the Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
24 Mar 2014
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...
Rehab robots, smart prostheses and exoskeletons to reach $1.8 billion by 2020
Frank Tobe
15 Mar 2014
A Wintergreen Research report says that the rehabilitation robot market will grow from $43.3 million to $1.8 billion by 2020 as a result of the effectiveness of robotic treatment methods....
Lifehand 2 prosthetic grips and senses like a real hand
NCCR Robotics
12 Mar 2014
Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen wearing sensory feedback enabled prosthetic in Rome, February 2013 (Lifehand 2, Patrizia Tocci).
Roboticists and doctors working in Switzerland and Italy have come toget...
