May 31, 2017 @ 20:06 |By Anne Trafton | MIT News | MIT researchers has developed a new surgical technique that could allow prosthetic limbs to feel more natural and Muscle grafts could help amputees sense and control artificial limbs. A new surgical technique devised by MIT researchers could allow prosthetic limbs to feel much more like natural limbs. […]
May 9, 2017 @ 14:26 | Newcastle University researchers have developed a bionic hand which can respond automatically using computer vision. A new generation of prosthetic limbs which will allow the wearer to reach for objects automatically, without thinking – just like a real hand – are to be trialled for the first time. Led […]
Apr 24, 2017 @ 17:05| University of twente researcher geert folkertsma has developed a prototype cheetah robot. Folkertsma has dedicated four years of research and development to constructing a scaled-down robotic version of the fastest land animal in the world, with a view to replicating its movements. Relatively speaking, the robot moves using only about […]
Apr 13, 2017 @ 15:23 | Toyota launches a rental service for wearable robotic leg brace called the Welwalk WW-1000 designed to help partially paralyzed people walk. Toyota Motor Corporation will launch a rental service for the Welwalk WW-1000 robot from the fall of 2017. The Welwalk WW-1000 is designed to aid in the rehabilitation […]
Dec 27, 2016 @ 18:28 | The LUKE Arm (“Life Under Kinetic Evolution”) is the first commercially available FDA-approved robotic prosthetic arm. It is manufactured by Mobius Bionics LLC of Manchester, N.H.. The holiday season is bringing high-tech offerings for U.S. war veterans this year in the form of sophisticated bionic arms developed under the […]
Jul 4, 2016 @ 21:08 | Imperial College London | Prostate cancer, also known as carcinoma of the prostate, is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. t may initially cause no symptoms. In later stages it can lead to difficulty urinating, blood in the urine, or pain in […]
Jun 2, 2016 @ 15:36 | Wyss Institute, Harvard | USA | The new actuators could pave the way for entirely soft-bodied robots that are safer than their conventional rigid counterparts To make robots more cooperative and have them perform tasks in close proximity to humans, they must be softer and safer. A new actuator developed […]
May 17, 2016 @ 18:46 | Five-Year Agreement Establishes Unique Collaboration and Extensive IP Licensing for “Soft Suit” Exoskeleton Systems ReWalk Robotics Ltd., the leading global exoskeleton developer and manufacturer today announced a collaboration with Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering for the licensing of Intellectual Property (IP), and development of concepts and […]