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Panasonic Announces Assist Robots for Industrial Use and Elderly Care

Panasonic released a video featuring its assist robots, which support the everyday lives of workers and the elderly. The company has applied the advanced control and sensor technologies that it has developed to create a robot equipped with motors that assist human body mechanics. These robots are safe to use and offer peace of mind. This video highlights the latest developments in Panasonic’s assist robots.

18 Mar 2016

Annual SIR Scientific Meeting: Hansen Medical to Exhibit Magellan Robotic System

Hansen Medical, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced it will exhibit its Magellan™ Robotic System at the Annual Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Scientific Meeting April 2-7 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 18 Mar 2016

Automated Techniques Could Speed Up Antimicrobial Discovery

The antimicrobial arsenal that we count on to save millions of lives each year is alarmingly thin--and these microbes are rapidly evolving resistance to our weapons.

17 Mar 2016

Innovative Humanoid Robot to Assist Children with Autism

Children with autism have special difficulty in expressing emotions, usually have no social skills and face major problems when communicating. In order to help children with this problem learn to recognize facial expressions in themselves and in others, a group of researchers at the Tec de Monterrey, in Mexico, created a robot using artificial intelligence.

15 Mar 2016

Researchers Create Breakthrough Mind-Controllable Prosthesis Using Electrode System

Thanks to the electrodes system a stable signal is obtained, which allows precise control like handling an egg without breaking. It also provides sensations as if it were a real hand.

15 Mar 2016

Guthrie Announces Arrival of Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots to Disinfect Operating Rooms

Guthrie has reported the arrival of Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots, a new kind of advanced robots which utilize a unique pulsed xenon light technology to sanitize operating rooms.

15 Mar 2016

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Publishes Special Supplemental Issue Dedicated to Stereotaxis Technology

Stereotaxis, Inc., a global leader in innovative technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, today announced that the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-8167), a publication of Wiley Periodicals and a leading peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of electrophysiology (EP) of the heart, has published a special supplemental issue dedicated to Stereotaxis technology.

14 Mar 2016

FDA Approves Powered Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Created by Vanderbilt Engineers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given clearance to market and sell the powered lower-limb exoskeleton created by a team of Vanderbilt engineers and commercialized by the Parker Hannifin Corporation for both clinical and personal use in the United States.

11 Mar 2016

MEDTECH Delivers ROSA Spine Robotic Surgery System to Miami Valley Hospital

MEDTECH, a company specialized in designing, developing and marketing innovative surgical assistance robots, today announced the first sale of its ROSA™ Spine robotic surgery system in the U.S. - to Miami Valley Hospital.

11 Mar 2016

Xenex' LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots Destroy Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Four-Minute Cycle

Last Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) issued a report on superbugs and the risk they pose to hospital patients stating that “more work is needed – especially in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.” Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) kill nearly 200 people in the U.S. every day and affect 1 in 25 hospital patients – and these numbers do not include infections acquired at skilled nursing, long-term acute care and outpatient surgery facilities.

10 Mar 2016