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Registration now open for Cybathlon 2016
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....
09 October 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
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...
07 October 2014, by
ETH Zurich
3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals
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 ...
02 October 2014, by
Joel Gibbard
HelloSpoon: A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities
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 ...
22 September 2014, by
Luis Garcia
ReWalk IPO gets $36 million; Corindus private placement gets $26.6
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...
15 September 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Transportation of medical equipment: Robots to replace couriers | Hospital Direct
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...
03 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes
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]...
02 September 2014, by
Aaron Horowitz and Sproutel
ShanghAI Lectures: Tamas Haidegger “Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?”
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...
28 August 2014, by
Nathan Labhart
Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph
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...
07 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
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Ekso Bionics, with Russ Angold
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 ...
26 July 2014, by
Audrow Nash
New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers | MIT News
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...
18 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
3 exoskeleton companies go public
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...
14 July 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today
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10 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Robots automate testing for bacteria, including coliforms
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...
08 July 2014, by
DigInfo TV
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Computer-Assisted Surgery, with Karol Miller
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...
27 June 2014, by
Ron Vanderkley
On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
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. ...
24 June 2014, by
Mark Stephen Meadows
Noonee: The chairless Chair
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...
20 June 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
Exoskeleton with haptic sensors helps paralysed man to kick off World Cup
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...
12 June 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science
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...
12 June 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Titan Medical secures $34.8 million from public offering
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....
23 May 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Technology to help adults age in place just a few years away | The Star
“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...
13 May 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Robot helps 94-year-old Italian grandmother live independently at home
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...
05 May 2014, by
the European Commission
Recent robotics-related IPOs
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....
26 April 2014, by
Frank Tobe
#Robots14 event “From Imagination to Market” is itself imaginative
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...
22 April 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke
People say the darndest things! And some of those statements add to the puzzle that is Willow Garage....
14 April 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Intuitive Surgical upgrades da Vinci surgical system and recalls tools used by them
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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06 April 2014, by
Frank Tobe
The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies
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 ...
01 April 2014, by
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
Introducing the Cybathlon
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...
24 March 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
Rehab robots, smart prostheses and exoskeletons to reach $1.8 billion by 2020
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....
15 March 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Lifehand 2 prosthetic grips and senses like a real hand
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...
12 March 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
