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by Bruce Brown | July 1, 2021 | General News, Health
Bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh Rehab Neural Engineering Labs achieved a breakthrough in brain-controlled prosthetics. This new approach provides tactile feedback through a brain/computer interface (BCI) to help a human subject control a robotic arm. The...
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by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2020 | Enabling Tech
We’re intrigued and excited by the medical and health-related possibilities of nanobots: injectable robots 50 to 100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter). Radio frequency waves can activate nanobots that carry miniaturized electronic...
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by Bruce Brown | November 20, 2020 | Enabling Tech
When we write about stretchable sensors, the topic usually involves sensors embedded or woven in fabric used to create smart garments for humans. Researchers at Cornell University’s College of Engineering developed a stretchable fiber-optic sensor for robots....
by Bruce Brown | July 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Scientists at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a microrobot that theoretically can deliver drugs to specific locations in the human body via the circulatory system. To date, the engineers have tested the...
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by Bruce Brown | September 6, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Researchers and engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed an artificial nervous system, building on their earlier work with smart skin. The Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES) has an exceptional sense of touch and can detect contact more...
