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AAOS 2016: MEDTECH to Provide Hands-on Demonstrations of ROSA Robotic Surgery Systems

MEDTECH, a company specialized in designing, developing and marketing innovative surgical assistance robots, today announced its participation at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting, being held March 1-5 in Orlando, Florida.

1 Mar 2016

KAIST’S K-Glass 3 Allows Users Type Message or Keywords by Offering Virtual Keyboard

KAIST researchers upgraded their smart glasses with a low-power multicore processor to employ stereo vision and deep-learning algorithms, making the user interface and experience more intuitive and convenient.

29 Feb 2016

Kreative Robotik Exhibition: KUKA Robots Demonstrate How Humans and Machines Can Work Creatively Together

The LBR iiwa holds a calligraphy pen. KUKA robots create art at the “Kreative Robotik” exhibition. In the foyer of the Austrian Ars Electronica Centers (AEC), the LBR iiwa and the KUKA KR 16 – an industrial robot for low payloads – demonstrate how humans and machines can work creatively together.

29 Feb 2016

MEDTECH’s ROSA Robotic Surgery System Successfully Used for Treatment of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

MEDTECH, a company specialized in designing, developing and marketing innovative surgical assistance robots, is pleased to announce the first surgical operation with the ROSA™ robotic surgery system in Australia.

29 Feb 2016

Direct Transcription Enables Unstable Ball-Balancing Robot to Perform Series of Tasks

When you go to make your movement across a room or down a path your brain makes thousands of tiny decisions on how best to move, such as how to use your weight, what obstacles or uneven surfaces there may be and how rigid or soft your limbs and joints should be. How to teach a robot how the same decision making process is an ongoing question in robotics but a team from ADRL, ETH Zurich and NCCR Robotics explores numerical methods for trajectory optimisation.

26 Feb 2016

Autonomous Driving Systems Could Reduce Energy Savings and Environmental Benefits

Driverless vehicles could intensify car use — reducing or even eliminating promised energy savings and environmental benefits, a new study co-authored by a University of Washington engineer finds.

26 Feb 2016

Novel Method Can Reduce Human Error and Bugs that Occur in Programming Swarm Robots

Researchers from Sheffield Robotics have applied a novel method of automatically programming and controlling a swarm of up to 600 robots to complete a specified set of tasks simultaneously.

26 Feb 2016

Researchers Build Ciliate-Inspired Microrobot Using Liquid-Crystal Elastomers

Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to these microorganisms. In spite of this, however, they are able to self-propel through water by the synchronized movement of thousands of extremely thin filaments on their outer skin, called cilia.

26 Feb 2016

TOTY Awards 2016: VEX Robotic Arm by HEXBUG Receives Educational Toy of the Year Award

The VEX Robotic Arm by HEXBUG received the award for Educational Toy of the Year at the Toy Industry Association's 16th annual Toy of the Year (TOTY) Awards, also known as the "Oscars" of the toy industry. This distinguished honor is granted annually to a toy that best enables learning through play. Receiving the 2016 Educational TOTY further cements HEXBUG and VEX Robotics as continued world leaders in innovative toys and robotics.

25 Feb 2016

Mercy Medical Center Now Offers New da Vinci Xi System for Various Surgical Procedures

Mercy Medical Center is now one of only three hospitals in the mid-Atlantic region to offer the new Intuitive da Vinci Xi Surgical System for a variety of surgical procedures (e.g. gynecologic, urologic, colon-rectal, and general surgeries) through an enhanced, minimally invasive approach.

25 Feb 2016

NTU Scientists Develop Radar Chip that Holds Potential for UAVs and Satellite Applications

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a chip that allows new radar cameras to be made a hundred times smaller than current ones.

24 Feb 2016

Researchers Developing Automated Seat Cushion to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Wheelchair Users

Modern-day wheelchairs provide a full range of mobility solutions to those who cannot walk, but many users still battle an unwanted side effect: painful ulcers caused by sitting for long periods in the same position.

24 Feb 2016

Bluefin Robotics Acquired by General Dynamics Mission Systems

General Dynamics Mission Systems has acquired Bluefin Robotics, a manufacturer of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) that perform a wide range of missions for the U.S. military and commercial customers.

23 Feb 2016

Germ-Zapping Robots Improve Patient Safety at Avera McKennan Hospital

Meet Xena the germ-zapping warrior. She’s one of two new robots at Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center that are super cleaners, able to destroy hard-to-kill superbugs — including those that cause hospital-acquired infections — within minutes by sending out intense pulses of ultraviolet (UV) light.

23 Feb 2016

Biotricity Awarded NRC-IRAP Grant to Study HRV Application in Preventative Medicine

Biotricity, a healthcare technology company dedicated to delivering innovative, medically relevant biometric remote monitoring solutions, has been awarded a research grant from the National Research Council-Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) of Canada. The prestigious grant enables Biotricity to conduct research around the use of heart rate variability (HRV) in various applications for preventative medicine.

23 Feb 2016

Robotics News

AAOS 2016: MEDTECH to Provide Hands-on Demonstrations of ROSA Robotic Surgery Systems

KAIST’S K-Glass 3 Allows Users Type Message or Keywords by Offering Virtual Keyboard

Kreative Robotik Exhibition: KUKA Robots Demonstrate How Humans and Machines Can Work Creatively Together

MEDTECH’s ROSA Robotic Surgery System Successfully Used for Treatment of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

Direct Transcription Enables Unstable Ball-Balancing Robot to Perform Series of Tasks

Autonomous Driving Systems Could Reduce Energy Savings and Environmental Benefits

Novel Method Can Reduce Human Error and Bugs that Occur in Programming Swarm Robots

Researchers Build Ciliate-Inspired Microrobot Using Liquid-Crystal Elastomers

TOTY Awards 2016: VEX Robotic Arm by HEXBUG Receives Educational Toy of the Year Award

Mercy Medical Center Now Offers New da Vinci Xi System for Various Surgical Procedures

NTU Scientists Develop Radar Chip that Holds Potential for UAVs and Satellite Applications

Researchers Developing Automated Seat Cushion to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Wheelchair Users

Bluefin Robotics Acquired by General Dynamics Mission Systems

Germ-Zapping Robots Improve Patient Safety at Avera McKennan Hospital

Biotricity Awarded NRC-IRAP Grant to Study HRV Application in Preventative Medicine

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