Jun 8, 2023 | Healthcare, Robots
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Loris Fichera has been awarded $599,663 by the National Science Foundation for a five-year project that will enable a new class of surgical robots to treat disease through the focused delivery of...
May 25, 2023 | Healthcare, Robots
Researchers at CU Boulder have engineered a new class of tiny robots that can zip through liquid at phenomenal speeds. Their hope is that one day they may be able to deliver prescription drugs inside the human body. This is according to a press release by...
May 11, 2023 | Healthcare, Robots
A soft robot inserted through a tiny hole in the skull can deploy six sensor-filled legs on the surface of the brain. A version of this soft robot has been successfully tested in a miniature pig and could be scaled up for human testing in the future. The concept...
May 4, 2023 | Drones, Healthcare, Michigan
Medicine delivered straight to your doorstep? Starting next year, that will be possible. Each year, the University of Michigan’s Michigan Medicine delivers close to 125,000 prescriptions to patients. Soon, it will add one more method of delivery … drones....
Mar 16, 2023 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
hen caught early, lung cancer can often be successfully treated. The problem, however, is that there typically aren’t any symptoms in its early stages. That makes the early detection of lung cancer all the more important. One way to achieve this is by screening...
Dec 1, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Robots
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are developing artificial intelligence (AI) and socially assistive robots to detect urinary tract infections (UTIs) earlier. The FEATHER project aims to reduce the number of serious...
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