A team of European universities, research institutes, commercial companies and care organisations have been working on a new type of social carer which can provide help in these and other situations. The EU-funded Mobiserv project has been working for the past three years to create a robot companion for older adults that can remind them about eating, drinking and taking medicines, offer structure throughout the day, and help people to stay active by suggesting a variety of activities.
Apr 18th, 2013
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Information from the senses has an important influence on how we move. For instance, you can see and feel when a mug is filled with hot coffee, and you lift it in a different way than if the mug were empty. Neuroscientist Julian Tramper discovered that the brain uses two forms of old information in order to execute new movements well.
Apr 18th, 2013
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Researchers at the University of Leeds are using the feet of tree frogs as a model for a tiny robot designed to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery.
Apr 18th, 2013
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Mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego invented a robot designed to scoot along utility lines, searching for damage and other problems that require repairs.
Apr 17th, 2013
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Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to help save coral reefs. A team of 'coralbots', each individually working to simple rules, will piece together damaged bits of coral, allowing them to regrow.
Apr 16th, 2013
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Thailand is positioning itself as an Asean regional hub for the advanced medical robot industry.
Apr 16th, 2013
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Barobo, Inc., an innovator of educational robotics, announced today the launch of the Mobot-A robot kit, a 3D printed robot for schools in need of educational application for their 3D printers.
Apr 11th, 2013
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The event Robotics Innovation Challenge (RIC) takes place on Thursday, April 25, in Eskilstuna, Sweden
Apr 10th, 2013
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Launched late last year, the Robots app is the best, most complete guide to the amazing world of robotics. It features 126 real-world robots from 19 countries, with hundreds of photos, videos, technical specs, articles, and exclusive interactives that let you spin and move robots with your fingertips.
Apr 9th, 2013
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Petman is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous environments.
Apr 9th, 2013
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The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year - triple the number just four years earlier. But now the high-tech helper is under scrutiny over reports of problems, including several deaths that may be linked with it, and the high cost of using the robotic system.
Apr 9th, 2013
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The new ePLC robots will include new versions of the company's Cobra, Quattro, and Viper robots.
Apr 9th, 2013
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The government has asked the Ministry of Science and Technology to develop medical robot technology under a 2-billion-baht budget, based on a five-year plan from this year to 2017.
Apr 7th, 2013
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With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and glide without beating its wings.
Apr 4th, 2013
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The system was developed under a Phase II subcontract from Applied Physical Sciences Corp. for the Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) Program. DSOP is part of DARPA's Distributed Agile Submarine Hunting program (DASH), which aims to develop affordable distributed technology to address Anti-Submarine Warfare surveillance needs over large, operationally relevant areas.
Apr 4th, 2013
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TopCoder, Inc., the world's largest open innovation platform and competitive community of 470,000 digital creators, announced two new marathon competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab that will look to continue delivery of output-based high value returns in the most cost-effective and measurable software development process currently available to government agencies.
Apr 3rd, 2013
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An interdisciplinary collaboration of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities has designed a robotic surgery system specifically designed to treat bladder cancer, the sixth most common form of cancer in the US and the most expensive to treat.
Apr 2nd, 2013
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Recently, at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a surgeon performed a groundbreaking robotic laparoscopic procedure on a 35-year-old pregnant patient whose cervix was too short to sustain a pregnancy.
Mar 29th, 2013
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