Dr. Richard Farnam from the Las Palmas Medical Center has begun using the da Vinci Skills Simulator, a tool that allows Dr Farnam to practice complicated robotic surgeries in a training simulator based on virtual reality, prior to the actual surgery on a patient.
Robotics research lab and technology incubator Willow Garage has joined the Healthcare Robotics Group in Geogia Tech to foster a program called ‘Robots for Humanity’. The project hopes allow robots to help human being with day to day activities, specially people who suffer from disabilities and are unable to take care of themselves.
Researchers from the Queen Mary University and University College London are trying to develop socially conscious robots that are capable of interacting with humans by reading their facial expressions and reacting accordingly.
A seven year old girl, Anna Good, gained strength to move around and pedal her tricycle after undergoing robotic rehabilitation treatment at the Robotic Rehabilitation Center at Riley Hospital for children in Indianapolis.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish a multi-institution Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering located at the University of Washington. The center is to be launched this month and will be based in the Russel Hall on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.
The Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) and Livingston Advisory Committee for Disabilities (LACD) announced that children with special needs would be offered the ‘Shining Star’ Robotics League. One of the award winning FISRT LEGO League (FLL) team from LRC, comprising four eighth-grade girls is available for mentoring the teams for two to four hours every week.
Kagawa University professor, Hideyuki Sawada, has created a robotic mouth that can talk and also sing. The mouth was presented at Robotech 2011, where it was made to recite “Kagome, Kagome”, a Japanese children’s song.
Kessler Foundation became the first Rehabilitation Center to introduce the Robotic Gait Training System using the LokomatPro V6 in the U.S. It is a sophisticated robotic training system, which is designed to improve mobility in people suffering from spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury or multiple sclerosis disease and whose movements have been restrained.
Manipal Health has launched the Manipal Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery (MVIRS) at its hospital in Bangalore. The robotic surgical system, which cost Rs10 crores is the first of its kind in Karnataka.
Health Robotics has announced that medical dispensing solutions like i.v.STATION, i.v.SOFT, i.v.STATION ONCO would be available for rent. To carry out its new rental plan it has chosen Americorp Financial to help out; Americorp provides assistance in healthcare equipment financing solutions.
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