Robotics
Engineers have developed a lightweight, wearable robotic device that provides neuromuscular training while making walking easier for children with cerebral palsy. Mechanical engineer and inventor Zach Lerner, assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded $2.1m by the National Institutes of Health. Lerner said the funding will enable him to [...]
International life sciences and sustainability technology investment group NetScientific has completed a convertible loan investment and share acquisition in robotics and AI company Q-Bot totalling £1.3m. A spokesperson for NetScientific said these transactions will broaden its portfolio, via its hands-on investment approach, and deepen its participation in a proven pioneering business with rapid scale-up potential [...]
A human-robot interaction expert said the living robots could continue to evolve and become more of an animal than a robot, leading to a new species. A team, from the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, built the first living robots, 'Xenobots', assembled from frog [...]
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain, working in the Human Brain Project, have designed an artificial neural network that mimics the structure of the cerebellum, one of the evolutionarily older parts of the brain, which plays an important role in motor coordination. When linked to a robotic arm, their system learned to perform [...]
Global medical device company Smith+Nephew has launched a ‘turn-key’ robotic-assisted surgical system that is designed to quickly augment the orthopaedic team’s skills set for greater accuracy and improved outcomes. The CORI system is a compact and fully mobile solution that incorporates a 3-D intra-operative imaging system with an advanced robotic sculpting tool. The robotic system [...]
A new national robotics research centre will receive a share of £25m to improve collaborative technology and help unlock the full potential of smart collaborative robotics. The University of Strathclyde is a partner in the Made Smarter Innovation Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robotics, which aims to advance smart manufacturing by eliminating barriers and [...]
In the future, soft robotic hands with advanced sensors could help diagnose and care for patients, or act as more lifelike prostheses. Researchers say one roadblock to encoding soft robotic hands with human-like sensing capabilities and dexterity has been the stretchability of pressure sensors. Although pressure sensors, needed for a robotic hand to grasp and [...]
Medtronic plc has received official approval for the sale of its robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system in Europe. European CE Mark approval of its Hugo system is for urologic and gynecologic procedures, which make up around half of all robotic procedures performed today. Megan Rosengarten, president of the firm’s surgical robotics division, said: "This day has [...]
Clinicians and tech experts from the UK are helping to make surgery safer and more affordable in the Caribbean, using the latest medical robotics. Imperial Medical Solutions (IMS), of Hartlepool, North East England, has introduced its FreeHand robotic system for minimally invasive surgery across hospitals in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. Surgeons carrying out operations [...]
Yusuke Terada is a Japanese YouTuber with cerebral palsy. Health Tech World editor spoke to him from Japan to find out all about the wearable Cyberdyne cyborg that has changed his life. Yusuke is 31 and was born cerebral palsy, which means he is largely reliant on a wheelchair. However, in recent years he has [...]
