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A random walk with HAL the friendly Exoskeleton
Posted on April 3, 2014 by Colin Lewis
CyberdineIn hospitals and nursing homes in Japan, disabled people are learning to walk again by wearing a robot suit. The suit ironically named HAL, for the Hybrid Assistive Limb, is strapped to one or both legs to help the patient regain mobility. I say ironically because HAL is the Artificial Intelligence villain of science fiction. But the exoskeleton HAL is in fact far friendlier. It has been designed to support and expand the physical capabilities of its users, particularly people with physical disabilities. Read the entire post on Colin's blog
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"Technology has taken us places we've only dreamed, empowering us to make the impossible possible."
Connecting a Brain to a Chip
Pioneering surgery that involves capturing signals from his brain and restoring movement through a fine network of electronics linked to arm muscles.
A paralyzed man will receive experimental surgery connecting a brain chip to systems that activate muscles in his arm.
David Talbot | MIT Technology Review
Case Western Reserve University
The nanorobots—a collection of DNA molecules, some attached to antibodies—were designed to seek a specific set of human blood cells and attach a fluorescent tag to the cell surfaces.
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Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, working with their collaborators at the Hospital for Special Surgery, have created a fleet of molecular “robots” that can home in on specific human cells and mark them for drug therapy or destruction.
Watch the Animation: A molecular robot (automaton) in action. Image: Milan Stojanovic.
xxxColumbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons | YouTube Channel
Meet Cody, a robotic nurse , and HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, and Hector, who can remind patients to take their medicine, help locate eyeglasses and...
Thinking Machines
With America growing grayer by the year because of the aging Baby Boom generation, the health care industry needs more elderly care workers.
Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov.com
Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM
IBM Research
Cognitive computing systems learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either humans or machine could do on their own. They help human experts make better decisions by penetrating the complexity of Big Data.
Cognitive computing systems use image and speech recognition as their eyes and ears to understand the world and interact more seamlessly with humans ....
Healthcare
The Washington Post
BY JOANN WEINER | The Washington Post
The looming shortage of physicians, especially in the primary care area, coupled with the rising demand for medical services, poses a severe challenge for the American health-care system.
Innovative solution: allow robots to handle many of the routine, low-skilled medical tasks so that doctors’ time can be freed up for more complicated medical issues.
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