Jul 11, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
A south-west London pupil with cancer is being helped to keep up with school lessons by an interactive robot. Howard’s school attendance had dropped below 50% after he started intensive weekly chemotherapy in January, following his diagnosis of a rare kind of...
Jul 11, 2024 | Robots, Safety
Hospital lobbies are an odd place to spend an afternoon. At any moment, the air hangs thick with collective anxiety and anticipation. It’s also incredibly busy. Clipboard-carrying healthcare workers in blue and purple smocks speed-walk their way through a maze of...
Jul 11, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
A woman who is paralysed from the chest down is helping scientists in York develop a robot so people with mobility issues can receive breast screening. Jane Hudson, 53, from Harrogate, was unable to get an accurate mammogram because she could not get into the right...
Jul 8, 2024 | Disabilities, Featured, Robots
It’s less furry than a traditional companion, but a six-legged Chinese robot “guide dog” could one day help vision impaired people live more independently, according to its research development team in Shanghai. The robot dog, which is...
Jun 27, 2024 | Military, Robots
More than 1.6 million tonnes of unexploded weapons litter the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Remote-controlled seabed crawlers and robots with “smart grabbers” are now cleaning up these toxic munitions. A boxy robot crawls across the seabed off northern...
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