Jan 20, 2022 | Aging, Robots
As a teenager in the early 2000s, Conor McGinn worked part-time in the nursing home where his grandmother lived. The employees did all they could to make her and other residents comfortable, but McGinn says her quality of life was never as good as it was before. “The...
Jan 13, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Robots
Serve Robotics, an Uber spinout that builds sidewalk delivery robots, is deploying its next generation of robots that are capable of completing some commercial deliveries without a human in the loop, according to the startup. That means in certain operational...
Dec 23, 2021 | Featured, Robots
A novel carbon-based biosensor developed at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is set to drive new innovations in brain-controlled robotics. Developed by Professor Francesca Iacopi and her team in the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, the biosensor adheres to...
Dec 16, 2021 | Oceanography, Robots
The invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) chews off the tails of freshwater fishes and tadpoles, leaving the native animals to perish while dining on other fishes’ and amphibians’ eggs. In a study published December 16 in the journal iScience,...
Dec 16, 2021 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
Tetraplegic patients are prisoners of their own bodies, unable to speak or perform the slightest movement. Researchers have been working for years to develop systems that can help these patients carry out some tasks on their own. “People with a spinal cord...
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