Within six months the military plans to begin implanting microchips on the surface of patients' brains to study a prosthetic robotic arm controlled by the user's thoughts, via the chip.
Japanese researchers have found that patients with stroke-paralyzed arms and shoulders responded better to robot-assisted exercises (in addition to standard rehabilitation in the sub-acute period) better, as compared with self-training.
Singularity Hub has honored Aethon’s TUG robots as one of the Best Robots of 2010. The TUG robots are deployed in around 200 hospitals across the United States.
Jutta Schroeder-Tanka, a cardiologist at the St. Lucas Andreas Hospital, is working on improving a remote monitoring system developed by the National IT Institute for Healthcare in the Netherlands (Nictiz).
HANSEN, a provider of flexible robotics and the developer of robotic technology for 3D control of catheter movement, announced it has entered into patent and technology license agreements, with Philips to allow them to develop and commercialize the non-robotic applications of Hansen Medical's Fiber Optic Shape Sensing and Localization (FOSSL) technology.
Automated help in the home and hospitals could be the answer to all sorts of problems. A rapidly ageing ‘first world’ is therefore paying close attention to Japan's dalliance with automated care.
Great Western Hospital has received the IT Innovation Award for including the Wall-E and Eve robots in its pharmacy. The Health Business Awards identifies projects from NHS’ business segments and has honored GWH for its pharmacy robots.
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University are developing serpentine robots that can glide into organs like the heart during surgical procedures. These organs are unsafe to perform an open surgery.
HSE has recommended HIQA to analyze the effectiveness of robotic surgeries. An expert team of HIQA headed by Dr Mairin Ryan, Director of Health Technology Assessment of HIQA, will perform the investigation.
Several European surgeons visited Wexham Park Hospital to learn about the vital aspects of the da Vinci surgical robot.
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