EL-E Robot Opening a Door
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EL-E opens a door after being commanded by a laser-pointer interface. (Original upload: 5/10/2008)
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Robo MoS 090303
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Mass Technology Leadership Council’s Robotics Cluster visits Spaulding Rehabilitative Hospital for a demo of Hocoma’s adult and pediatric Lokomat robot.
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EL-E Robot Fetching Objects
Posted by admin on Jun 16, 2010 in Recent Posts | 0 comments
Using a laser-pointer interface to command EL-E to fetch objects. Inspired by interaction with service animals (service dogs and helper monkeys). (Original upload: 3/10/2008)
RI-MAN : Robot to lift and carry people – ROBORAMA.info
Posted by admin on Jun 16, 2010 in Recent Posts | 25 comments
For more life-like robot video clips, information and photo, please visit ROBORAMA.info – RI-MAN is the world’s first robot designed for lifting and carrying humans. A variety of sensors, including flexible tactile sensor sheets, provide RI-MAN with a sense of vision, hearing, touch, and smell. These senses help RI-MAN perform tasks such as locating people who are calling out to it, responding to spoken commands, carefully lifting those who need lifting, and checking the sanitary condition of the person it is carrying. RI-MAN is able to integrate a wide range of sensory data to adapt to changes in the environment. The robot is also equipped with 19 motors, controlled by a system of hierarchical distributed processing that is modeled after the nervous system found in biological organisms. This “nervous system” — a network of what RIKEN calls C-CHIPs — integrates sensor data processing with motor control to provide RI-MAN the autonomy needed to respond quickly to changes in the environment. The head has 3 degrees of freedom, each arm has 6, the waist has 2, and the base (which acts as RI-MAN’s legs) has 2. Safety-related technology, including safety circuits and soft skin and joints designed to prevent injury, are incorporated into RI-MAN’s design. Still in the initial testing phase, RI-MAN is currently practicing with dolls that weigh about 12 kg (26 lbs). Researchers plan to increase the weight of the practice dolls over time, with the aim of achieving the ability to lift …
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Robot Healthcare
Posted by admin on Jun 15, 2010 in Uncategorized | 1 comment
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Welcome to Robot Healthcare. Minimally invasive robot-assisted heart surgery is a procedure that allows heart surgery to be performed through tiny incisions in the patient’s chest. Traditional “open” surgery requires that surgeons make incisions large enough to expose and provide access to the area that is being operated on. In minimally invasive surgery, by contrast, the instruments used for the surgery are inserted through incisions no larger than a dime, reducing the opportunity for bacterial infection, decreasing post-operative pain, and allowing for faster recovery.
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