by Bruce Brown | October 24, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Recent advances in robotic prosthesis technologies include a sense of touch, greater range of motion, and brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI) that enable a user to control movement by thinking. Poland-based Clone Incorporated Is leaping forward with biomimetic robotic...
by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health
Brain-computer-interfaces (BCI) and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to make giant strides advancing human prosthetics. We previously covered a project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that developed an AI-powered prosthesis that restored a...
by Bruce Brown | May 17, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Scientists with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are developing technology that speeds up soft pneumatic actuator design. Soft actuators perform much of the lifting and moving of physical components in smart robotics,...
by Bruce Brown | December 20, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Engineers in the Stanford University Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab may not talk to the animals like Doctor Dolittle, but they do learn from other species. Stanford graduate students recently published a paper in Science Robotics detailing their work...
by Bruce Brown | September 30, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Consolidating related technologies, engineers at Cleveland Clinic have created a bionic arm that gives people with upper-limb amputations full control of the prosthetic. The greatest test of any prosthetic is the degree to which it replaces the functions and...