Restoration Robotics has created the ground-breaking ARTAS™ System, the first and only FDA cleared, physician controlled, interactive, computer assisted technology that allows safe and effective follicular unit extraction (FUE). The ARTAS System was developed in close collaboration with several leading hair restoration physicians to enable minimally invasive harvesting of hair follicles. Hair restoration moves healthy, functioning follicles […]
Military Robotics – Coming on in Leaps and Gallops! Those who believe that one day soon humans will be walking the streets with robots took one step closer to this reality recently when a robot prototype reached a speed of 18 miles per hour. Whilst the streets are safe for the time being from things […]
Engineers in Belgium have made a fully autonomous tractor robot, which can stay on course within centimeter precision while at the same time detecting wet terrain, aticipating slippage and calculating its optimal speed, thus operating much more efficiently than a human driver could. The vehicle is equipped with GPS system and various positional sensors. See […]
Researchers at Florida Institute of Human Machine Cognition have made a leg design for a robot Ostrich that would allow the robot to run on two legs with speeds up to 30 km / hour by using only one actuator per leg. The project is funded by DARPA, just as many other robotic projects, which […]
The famous Big Dog robot from Boston Dynamics which was first made public a couple years ago now evolved into its next generation model, Alpha Dog. The new robot will be able to carry loads up to 400 lbs and travel a distance of 20 miles on single charge. For more on the robot please visit […]
As the use of robots in battlefields grows continuously, the problem of managing an ever growing quantity of information becomes more and more critical. In order to use the resources efficiently, the goal is to enable a single soldier to manage more and more robots and robotic vehicles at the same time. Currently it looks […]
According to a report that appeared on Australian SBS TV recently, today 1 in every 50 soldier in US army is a robot. At the same time, this proportion is increasing dramatically. Although being autonomous is a highly controversial subject and great majority of the robots are either non autonomous or semi autonomous, it is also […]
The new robot that is employed by EPA is really speeding up things at the lab for testing the toxicity of chemicals. While a person can do 10-20 testing a year, the robot is able to test 10000 chemical in a week, says Robert Kavlock, the Director of the National Center for Computation and Toxicology at […]
The new surveillance robot that has been made by iROBOT for DARPA was presented the other day. The robot called “110 Firstlook” can observe its surroundings continuously with “persistent stare” and it is able to maneuver around in very tight and difficult conditions. The robot weighs less than 5 lbs and 10 inches, can stay […]
Exoskeletons are getting more and more common in robotics. The primary purpose of these is to amplify the movement of human muscles. A robotic suit designed for legs by Japan’s Cyberdyne company is helping disabled people to walk, by anticipating the legs movements through monitoring the signals sent from the brain to the muscles. Currently […]