Tag: robotics
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University Spins Off Educational Robot Start-Up
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Harvard University is developing a learning system with robotics to teach computer coding to students.
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Exosuit Shown to Improve Walking for Stroke Patients
A robotic device built and worn like clothing helps improve lower-limb walking performance for a group of people partially paralyzed with stroke.
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Robot Designed to Grow into Shapes, Spaces
Engineering researchers created a new type of robot that grows to extend its form into spaces like a vine, rather than move to different locations.
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Is Tech Improving Your Employees, Or Is It Replacing Them?
If tech is improving your employees, then it makes for a vastly efficient operation where the staff is engaged and working to the best of their ability.
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Algorithm Quickly Customizes Walking Exoskeleton
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh wrote and tested an algorithm for exoskeletons that customize the devices to a person’s walking pattern in about an hour.
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Exosuit Prototype Unveiled for Stroke Survivors
An assistive device with sensors and motors designed to help people with stroke and other muscle disorders walk more normally was demonstrated on 16 June.
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Computer Vision, Deep Learning Aid Prosthetic Hands
A built-in camera and artificial intelligence can improve the speed and grasping ability of a prosthetic hand, as shown in tests with people missing a hand.
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Algorithms Simplify, Improve Robot Grasping
Computer scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology developed a process that simplifies remote-controlled robotic grasping movements for end users.
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Neural Technology Research Centers Launched
Research centers for accelerating new technologies that tackle nervous system disorders are opening at two universities in the U.S., with industry partners.
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Medical Robotics Company Crowdfunding IPO
A medical robotics company spun-off from labs at MIT is issuing its initial public stock offering through equity crowdfunding, aiming to raise $15 million.