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University of Michigan Researchers Demonstrate Microbot Muscles

In a step toward robots smaller than a grain of sand, University of Michigan researchers have shown how chains of self-assembling particles could serve as electrically activated muscles in the tiny machines.

11 Nov 2014

Robotic Electrode System Helps Maintain Contact with Neurons

They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry and nerve cells don’t communicate as they should, the consequences can be devastating. Speech can be slurred, muscles stop working on command and memories can be lost forever.

30 Jul 2014

Bacterial Robotics Secures Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus from Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Bacterial Robotics, a synthetic microbial biotechnology firm, today announced it secured an oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) from Nationwide Children's Hospital. The oHSV expresses the human tissue inhibitor metalloproteinases (TIMP3) or firefly luciferase rQT3.

24 Jun 2014

Oscillating Magnetic Fields Control Sperm-Inspired Microrobots

A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which can be controlled by oscillating weak magnetic fields.

3 Jun 2014

Southern Nuclear Engineers Team Receive TIP Award for Developing a Top Industry Practice

A team of Southern Nuclear engineers at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant were honored yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Phoenix, Ariz. They received the nuclear industry's highest honor – a TIP Award – for developing a Top Industry Practice. The team claimed the 2014 GE Hitachi Vendor Award for its participation in GE Hitachi's development of the Stinger™ Automated IVVI, a new first-of-a-kind tool for performing in-vessel visual inspections.

22 May 2014

Optical Tweezers' Control Micro-Robots

The development of light-driven 'micro-robots' that can autonomously investigate and manipulate the nano-scale environment in a microscope comes a step closer, thanks to new research from the University of Bristol.

18 Apr 2014

Tauriga Sciences Enters Merger Agreement with Cannabis Based Healing Products Company, Honeywood

Tauriga Sciences Inc. ("Tauriga" or "the Company"), a diversified life sciences company with key assets that include license agreements, topical medicinal cannabis lotions, and a proprietary technology platform in the nanorobotics space, is pleased to disclose to shareholders that the Company entered into the March 11, 2014 definitive merger agreement ("definitive agreement") with Oakland, California based Honeywood LLC ("Honeywood"), an affiliate of Doc Green's Healing Collective ("Doc Green's").

24 Mar 2014

Xenex Offers HCAHPS Improvement Program

Xenex Disinfection Services, the world leader in UV room disinfection systems for healthcare facilities, today announced the availability of its HCAHPS Improvement Program, which is designed to help hospitals raise their Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) cleanliness scores.

25 Feb 2014

Innovative Micro-Robotic Technique for Assembling Components of Complex Materials

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of complex materials, the foundation of tissue engineering and 3D printing.

11 Feb 2014

Tauriga and UCRI Enter Multi Faceted Service Agreement

Tauriga Sciences, Inc. ("Tauriga" or "the Company"), a diversified company focused on generating profitable revenues through license agreements and the development of a proprietary technology platform in the nano-robotics space, today announced the execution of a multi faceted service agreement ("the agreement") with the University of Cincinnati Research Institute ("UCRI") to facilitate the commercialization of the Company's proprietary bacterial robot ("BactoBot™") technology platform for treatment and remediation of wastewater.

7 Feb 2014