by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore The innovative wearable robot for hip abduction assistance designed at the Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at Chung-Ang University. Credit: Park et al.In recent years, roboticists have introduced increasingly advanced systems, which could open exciting new possibilities for surgery, rehabilitation, and health care assistance. These robotic systems are already...
IMAGE: RESEARCH LED BY UTHEALTH SHOWED POTENTIAL FOR THE EKSO 1.1TM EXOSKELETON TO CORRECT IMPAIRED WALKING PATTERNS ON A WEAK OR PARALYZED LEG, AND INCREASE ITS MOTOR COORDINATION. CREDIT: PHOTO COURTESY OF FANGSHI ZHU, PHD/UTHEALTH Exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation can be beneficial in treating stroke survivors, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE IMAGE: The Robot Smiles Back: Eva mimics human facial expressions in real-time from a living stream camera. The entire system is learned without human labels. Eva learns two essential capabilities: 1) anticipating what itself would look like if it were making an observed facial expression, known as...
Robot Girlfriend Scientists from Japan’s Gifu University built a robot hand for men to clasp when they feel lonely. The hand, dubbed “Osampo Kanojo,” which the engineers roughly translate to “My Girlfriend in Walk” in their research, is meant to feel and even smell like a romantic partner from the forearm down, according to CNET. The idea, supposedly, is...
MEDGADGET EDITORS MATERIALS, NANOMEDICINE, SURGERY Engineers at University of California, Los Angeles have come up with a tiny new robot that can be controlled and powered using a beam of light. Called OsciBot, because of its oscillating motion, the robot is made entirely out of a light-responsive hydrogel and doesn’t carry its own power source, relying...
Posted Today A team from CU Boulder is taking a page from The Magic School Bus and journeying inside the body.. Graduate student Gregory Formosa inspects a robot that could one day change how doctors performcolonoscopies. Credit: CU Boulder/Glenn Asakawa The researchers, led by engineer Mark Rentschler, aren’t traveling by shrinking bus like the one in the cartoon and book series. Instead, they’re using...
You might think that most new robots are designed to head off into factories or other workplaces, but the fact is that many of them are made to be used in the lab, by robotics developers. That’s the case with EVE r3, although its successor may find use in applications such as home care for the elderly....
An ever-increasing number of research groups are developing tiny robots, capable of performing targeted drug-delivery inside the body. One of the latest such devices incorporates a flapping whale-flukes-like tail, along with wings that fold up or down as needed. Developed by scientists at Dartmouth College and City University of Hong Kong, the minuscule 3D-printed robot’s tail is covered with a layer of...
About 1 million adults in the United States need someone to help them eat, according to census data from 2010. It’s a time-consuming and often awkward task, one largely done out of necessity rather than choice. Researchers at the University of Washington are working on a robotic system that can help make it easier. After...
When you think of robots, usually you think of a 3D being that manipulates the world around it. But Yale University researchers took a different tack, turning away from nature to design “robotic skins” that wrap around existing objects and manipulate them from the outside. It’s an out-of-this-world solution intended to help with space-age issues,...
