Tag: robotics
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Ford Investing $1B in Artificial Intelligence Start-Up
Ford Motor Company is investing $1 billion in a start-up enterprise that applies artificial intelligence to the operation and management of autonomous vehicles.
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Human-Like Soft Touch Robotic Sensors Developed
A robotic hand with built-in sensors that can sense fine differences in shape and texture is being developed in an engineering lab at Cornell University.
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Spinal Cord Injury Rehab Device in Development
A robotic device to improve the balance of people going through rehabilitation after spinal cord injury is being developed by an engineering-medical team from Columbia University and University of Louisville.
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Robo-Bacteria Engineered for Cancer Drug Delivery
A biomedical engineering team designed a technology for precise deployment of drugs to tumors with bacteria modified to deliver their cargoes.
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Self-Driving Truck Software Based on Biological Model
26 May 2016. Researchers from Sweden are developing software for controlling self-driving trucks, using the way animals react and adapt to their environment as a model. The team from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg plans to demonstrate the package on Saturday, 28 May, in a Volvo heavy truck as part of the Grand Cooperative…
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Ingestible Robot Designed for Stomach Objects, Wounds
13 May 2016. An engineering team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed a tiny robotic device for swallowing into the stomach to remove foreign objects and repair wounds. Researchers that include team members at University of Sheffield and University of York in the U.K., as well as Tokyo Institute of Technology, will describe the device…
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Autonomous Robot Shown Better at Soft-Tissue Surgery
5 May 2016. A robotic arm, programmed to work autonomously under direction of a surgeon, was shown superior at soft-tissue surgery with pigs than human surgeons and robot-assisted surgery. Results of these tests, conducted by a team from Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., appear in yesterday’s (4 May) issue of the journal Science…
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NIH Funding New Robotics for Disabled, Children
4 December 2015. National Institutes of Health is funding research and development of new robotic devices to help older people or those with disabilities and serve as companions for children. Agencies in NIH plan to spend $2.2 million on these cooperative robotic, or co-robot, devices over the next five years, as part of the National…
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Wearable Personal Instruction System Being Developed
2 December 2015. A device that provides personal step-by-step instruction to individuals as they undertake various tasks is being developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The system, designed in the lab of professor Mahadev Satyanarayanan, is funded by a four-year $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation. Satyanarayanan and colleagues are seeking a…
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Robotics Harnessed to Produce Adult Stem Cells
4 August 2015. An automated system now uses robotics instead of manual lab handling to convert skin samples from individuals into stem cells that can transform into any other cells in the body, for regenerative medicine, drug development, and research. The system, developed at New York Stem Cell Foundation, or NYSCF, is described in yesterday’s…