Service Robots > Medical Robots

In an effort to facilitate learning of its AI platform Watson, IBM has bought a medical imaging company, in order to show its Watson lots (billions) of medical images, to improve its diagnostics ability. The system could prove very helpful in assisting doctors to make diagnostics. See details here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540141/why-ibm-just-bought-billions-of-medical-images-for-watson-to-look-at/ Read More

A soft, wearable device that mimics the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the lower leg could aid in the rehabilitation of patients with ankle-foot disorders such as drop foot, said Yong-Lae Park, an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Park, working with collaborators at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, MIT and BioSensics, developed an active orthotic device using soft plastics and […] Read More

What happens when you have gas pressure generated by live yeast, 3D printed valve and electricity produced by a microbial fuel cell? You get a 3d Printed artificial heart, according to a report that just appeared at New Scientist. The research team, from University of West England in Bristol, UK, notes that the system could serve as an artificial heartbeat for a cyborglike machine. Read More

RP-VITA is a robot avatar designed as a telepresence robot which can be controlled by physicians remotely in order to communicate with patients even from miles away distance. The skills of RP-VITA were demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Now, the robot has the clearance of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to use in hospitals and […] Read More

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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 to the areas of the patient’s scalp most impacted by […] Read More

The following video shows how the European firm Wasserbauer uses robots in animal healthcare industry. Utilizing robots enable better weight control and health of livestock. Robots can track feeding instructions for different animals and also feeding history. The data is managed at a centralized location, by the software manufacturer ITTA DB. Animals are tracked by RFID tags, which enables determining the weight of the animal […] Read More

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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 the suit, which is called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is […] Read More