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- Robotic help for stroke patients
- According to several estimations, there are more than 5 million people living in the U.S. who have been affected by a cerebral vascular accident. And more than 700,000 persons are suffering from a stroke every year. Some of them recover well. But others need months of physical therapy to regain...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- An EEG-controlled robotic arm
- Many researchers around the world have tried to build robotic devices able to help people with paralysis. Now, European researchers have developed a robot control system based on electroencephalogram EEG. The patients using the Brain2Robot system might regain some of their lost autonomy. The users will control the robotic arm...
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Photos: Paging Dr. Robot, your patient is waiting
- A California hospital tries out a rolling robot that lets faraway MDs interact with patients over the Internet.
- Image galleries 2007-05-18
- Robotic arm lends a hand after stroke
- In the U.S., stroke is a major cause of long-term disability which affects 700,000 people annually. Most of them are over 65 years old and some have difficulties grasping objects after their stroke. This is why Californian researchers have developed a robotic therapy which helps restore hand use after stroke....
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Practicing medicine on robo-patients
- These days, it seems that robots are very busy delivering drugs in hospitals or replacing nurses, doctors and even surgeons. But robots also can replace human patients. For example, at McMaster University in Canada, medical students are using robo-patients to practice their clinical skills before they reach human patients. Their...
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- Sony sends humanoid robot out for a run
- Sony sends humanoid robot out for a runthus is the humble begginings of the TerminatorHey, Arnold....I don't know about anybody else....But I hope by the time I'm ready to be put in a Nursing Home that Robots run the joint. People get tired, make mistakes sometimes deadly ones. ...
- Discussion threads 2003-12-18
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- Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International
- A robot in every operating room? Tom Low leads a team of researchers and engineers working on the next generation of medical robots to be used in laparoscopic surgery. Pioneered in the 1980s by SRI, the procedures involve doctors making very small incisions and then using long, skinny, robotically controlled...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- A robotic Cyberknife to fight cancer
- The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves around a patient when he breathes. According to BBC News, the first Cyberknife will be operational in February 2009 in London, UK. But...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- A robot to destroy breast cancer cells
- Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologistFirst? robot psychologist?The claim of "first" in the headline in patently false. Everyone knows that Joe Weizenbaum built the first one -- "ELIZA" in 1966. You should do some fact checking...RE: MindMentor, the first robot psychologistWhy would you do a whole article on this...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon
- Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London ICL. For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...
- Blog posts 2007-12-29
- GPS accuracy for a robotic neurosurgeon
- The MiniAture Robot for Surgical Applications MARS is already FDA-approved for orthopedic and spinal surgery. Now, Israeli scientists have given it GPS accuracy for keyhole neurosurgery. This is a minimally invasive procedure used for tumor biopsies or deep brain stimulation, but you need to know exactly where you operate. So...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- A robot that travels through the body
- The reference to the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" is maybe too obvious. But Israeli scientists have developed a 1-millimeter-diameter medical robot that will be able to crawl within our veins and arteries. It's too early to know when this medical robot is allowed to explore a real human being. But...
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- UCSF nurses test medical tablet PCs
- UCSF nurses test medical tablet PCsGreat more liesPatient safety is achieved by humans, not machines. Some reason why a new tech tool is not the answer.I have found over the last 10 years that ALL the equipment/ software sales staff care is sales, not helping the nurse. Of...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- IT matters most, but there are other techs to watch - and fear
- Last week, at MITs Emerging Technologies Conference, I decided to corner Jason Pontin who is not only the editor-in-chief and publisher of MITs Technology Review Magazine, but hes also the executive producer for all intents and purposes of the conference thats held annually in Cambridge, MA. Given the way the...
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Can Roomba maker iRobot clean up on Wall Street?
- Can Roomba maker iRobot clean up on Wall Street?Early stage, time to get into Robotics stock playI saw this company and their founders in a demo at a Technology Council presentation, they are off to a good start. The idea that "dull jobs" are target markets for their next...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-27
- Robots making rounds at London hospital
- Robots making rounds at London hospitalDo they really need a robot for this?They can accomplish this with a video phone or a chat app on a pc, getting the files via remote.Better yet, they can actually walk their lazy butts down to the patient and see them personally.Hey, I'm all...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-18
- FCC is taking a wrong turn
- FCC is taking a wrong turnCompletley insane?The fcc has completly lost it if you ask meSupposingthe FCC was to take to refering to digital broadcasts 'wide area 'downloads"". With this it could then refer to everything 'downloaded 'legal,but 'uploading 'illegal. With digital television what you really have is 'processed signaling....
- Discussion threads 2004-04-13
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