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    Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data
    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...
    20 May 2015, by
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    Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti

    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...
    15 May 2015, by

    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 ...
    12 May 2015, by , and

    Talking Machines: Developing effective medicine by predicting molecular activity, with George Dahl
    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...
    24 April 2015, by

    How robots can help build better doctors
    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 ...
    10 April 2015, by

    OpenBionics prosthetic hands: Open source, affordable, lightweight, anthropomorphic
    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....
    09 April 2015, by , , , and



    Unpowered exoskeleton improves efficiency of human walking
    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 ...
    08 April 2015, by

    Video: Giving robots and prostheses a sense of touch
    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...
    07 April 2015, by

    Intuitive Surgical da Vinci Surgical System gets big endorsement and new competition
    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 ...
    23 March 2015, by
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    Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester

    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...
    20 March 2015, by

    A bionic model is born
    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...
    17 March 2015, by

    Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?
    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...
    09 March 2015, by

    Baxter goes to Oregon, to help bring robots to the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak
    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...
    17 February 2015, by

    Robots for Humanity inspires
    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...
    12 February 2015, by

    DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch
    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...
    11 February 2015, by

    Should ownership influence the decision-making of a care robot?
    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...
    11 February 2015, by

    How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?
    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...
    13 January 2015, by

    Can a robot baby curb loneliness among Japan’s senior citizens? | TechInAsia
    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...
    13 January 2015, by

    Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again
    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...
    08 January 2015, by

    Walking assistive devices for the elderly
    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...
    07 January 2015, by and

    ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
    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 ...
    12 December 2014, by

    Aeon Scientific wins 2014 Swiss Technology Award
      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...
    26 November 2014, by and

    Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids
    Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3D printing technology....
    18 November 2014, by and
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    Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle

    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...
    15 November 2014, by

    Nate the Robot takes on eldercare!
    Robot advances in eldercare....
    14 November 2014, by

    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...
    13 November 2014, by , and

    Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandpa?
    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...
    11 November 2014, by

    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...
    07 November 2014, by

    Open Bionics founder Joel Gibbard wins Young Design Engineer of the Year Award
    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...
    14 October 2014, by

    Nursing Grandma with a robot
    [tweetquote]All this talk about being replaced by robots is getting old.[/tweetquote]...
    13 October 2014, by

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