... Foundation (NSF)
Expeditions in Computing grant to fund the development of small-scale
mobile robotic devices. Inspired by the biology of a bee and the
insect’s hive behavior, the researchers aim to ...
... .com) -- A group of researchers, at Northeastern University, have developed several portable robotic devices to aid in the rehabilitation process of stroke victims. These devices are small enough for ...
... , are useful for testing the basic characteristics of the materials, but perhaps in the future they could be end-product commercial prototypes for robotic devices and in micro and nanopositioning.
Research scientists using a novel, hand-operated robotic device and functional MRI (fMRI) have found that chronic ... patients squeezed a special MR-compatible robotic device for an hour a day, three days ...
... (NSF) has identified the design and verification of CPS as a key area of research. The increasing use of robotic devices, the growth of sensor networks, the proposed creation of a "smart grid" for ...
... possible to help rebuild brain connections using robotic devices that gently guide the limb as a patient ... moving in the wrong direction or does not move, the robotic arm gently nudges the child's arm ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers say they're using robotic devices that help stroke patients control their movements as models for devices that can aid cerebral palsy victims.
... blind people, Google maps and other visual mapping applications are of little use. Now, a unique device developed at MIT could give the visually impaired the same kind of benefit that sighted people ...
... them move as they would when walking. But this can be physically demanding on a therapist, and robotic devices have been developed as an alterative to relieve the therapist.
Some research has shown ...
... its own limb. Movements are fluid and natural, and evidence shows that the monkeys come to regard the robotic device as part of their own bodies.
The primary motor cortex, a part of the brain that ...
... look to nature's wide variety of locomotion strategies to inspire new inventions and robotic devices.
"Anything we can learn about biology and the way biological systems move and how particular ...
... ," said first author Takayuki Ito, a senior scientist at Haskins.
When, Ito and his colleagues used a robotic device to stretch the facial skin of "listeners" in a way that would normally accompany ...
... , the researchers used cultured mouse cells that were engineered to glow green when Wnt-controlled pathways were active. A robotic device then tested 200,000 compounds to measure ...
... , can be found in combinatorial chemistry, an approach in which thousands of experiments are carried out in parallel by robotic devices.
"I look at the origin of life as the result of combinatorial ...
... form a motor memory to control a disembodied device in a way that mirrors how it controls its own body. ... -human primates and humans are able to control robotic devices or computer cursors in real time ...
