In this interview, Professor J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine, talks to Kal Kaur from AZoRobotics about his work on a prototype robot for intracranial brain surgery.
By Kalwinder Kaur
31 Oct 2012
Electroactive polymers (EAP) are materials that can exhibit change in shape or size with respect to electrical stimulation.
The application of mechatronic engineering in human biology is known as biomechatronics.
Owing to the increase in the number of amputations during the American Civil War, the utilization of artificial limbs became popular.
Actuators are motors used in a control system. They are usually the final elements in the system. They use energy input and low power command signal to amplify the signal and produce the desired output.
Mr Jean-Francois Dupont, Chief Operating Officer at AV&R Vision & Robotics Inc. talks to Kal Kaur, Editor of AZoRobotics, about AV&R Vision & Robotics, robotic finishing and automated visual inspection.
The particle swarm algorithm is an adaptive algorithm developed according to a social-psychological metaphor. An individual population known as particles are adapted by stochastically going back toward former successful regions.
The greedy search algorithm is a traditional approach to robotic navigation that follows a local gradient. Upon implementing this method, a robot selects its path on the basis of only the positions, which places it nearest to its target.
In a new ‘insights from industry’ Tom Pollard, an RMT Robotics application Engineer for automated warehousing systems talks to Kal Kaur about RMT gantry robot systems.
As the evolution of robotic systems unfolds in the world around us, we are starting to see machines taking over manual tasks that would normally be performed by humans.