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Robotic and Prosthetic Hands Can Function Better by Sensing Shear Force

Robots will need the ability to sense when objects are slipping out of its grasp if there are to successfully disable a roadside bomb or handle an egg for making an omelet.

19 Oct 2017

MIT Researchers’ New AI-Based System Could Help in Early Breast Cancer Detection

Every year 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the U.S. alone. When cancers are found early, they can often be cured. Mammograms are the best test available, but they're still imperfect and often result in false positive results that can lead to unnecessary biopsies and surgeries.

17 Oct 2017

Robots with Malleable Silicone Muscles Could Aid Disabled and Elderly

Roboticists in Switzerland have developed robots with muscle-like actuators made of silicone rubber elastomers.

16 Oct 2017

Surgeons Use Microsure Surgical Robot to Operate on Lymphatic Vessels

A robotic device has been used by plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center in order to surgically treat lymphedema in a patient. This is indeed the world's first super-microsurgical intervention with 'robot hands'.

3 Oct 2017

"RoboLog" Created for Logging Physician Experience in Robotic Surgery

Physicians at Loyola Medicine have suggested a simple new system to enhance the reporting of robotic surgeries done by surgeons in training.

27 Sep 2017

Undergraduate Students Conduct Research with Summer Research Grants

Courtney Owen, when she was a student in high school, started thinking about how robots could help humans. She met Zeno, a robot capable of helping children with autism improve their social communication, while working a summer job in a research lab in Fort Worth, Texas.

26 Sep 2017