... to fund the development of small-scale mobile robotic devices. Inspired by the biology of a bee and the insect ... , the researchers aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power ...
... , at Northeastern University, have developed several portable robotic devices to aid in the rehabilitation process of stroke victims. These devices are small enough for patients to continue rehabilitation ...
... 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 ... . “We found that stroke patients improved their walking whether they had the robotic device or the therapist helping them,” said Hornby ...
... laboratories. The team built a number of potentially useful devices for robotics, using these shape memory materials, and investigated ... of the materials, but perhaps in the future they could be end-product commercial prototypes for robotic devices and in micro and nanopositioning ...
... , well-controlled movements of a human-like robotic arm by using only signals from its brain, researchers from the University ... , and evidence shows that the monkeys come to regard the robotic device as part of their own bodies. The primary ...
... propulsive method of land snails to drive a robotic device. Now, as a result of this new water ... of locomotion strategies to inspire new inventions and robotic devices. "Anything we can learn about biology and the way ...
Research scientists using a novel, hand-operated robotic device and functional MRI (fMRI) have found that chronic ... , the patients squeezed a special MR-compatible robotic device for an hour a day, three days ...
... scientist at Haskins. When, Ito and his colleagues used a robotic device to stretch the facial skin of "listeners ... from a computer-produced continuum between the words "head" and "had." When the robot stretched the listener's facial skin upward ...
... used cultured mouse cells that were engineered to glow green when Wnt-controlled pathways were active. A robotic device then tested 200,000 ...
... for understanding how this came about, he said, 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 ...
... , the method could be used on other cyber-physical systems, such as robotic surgery devices and nano-level manufacturing equipment ... of CPS as a key area of research. The increasing use of robotic devices, the growth of sensor networks, the proposed ...
... : that it is possible to help rebuild brain connections using robotic devices that gently guide the limb as a patient ... . Krebs' team has focused first on robotic devices to help cerebral palsy patients with upper ...
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.
... -human primates and humans are able to control robotic devices or computer cursors in real time ... never before associated with the control of a prosthetic device, the researchers said. "This is a study that says that maybe one day, we can really ...
... rats with spinal cord injuries on a robotic device (Rodent Robotic Motor Performance System ... than the non-trained animals both within the device as well as overground. "Our results show that increasing ...
