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by Bruce Brown | October 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The potential of a brain-computer interface (BCI) is at once exciting and amazing, if seemingly out of reach. The technology to hook up specific areas of the brain to control the motion of an external device promises freedom for many people with injured or missing...
by Bruce Brown | October 14, 2016 | General News, Health
Robots can take many forms. This one can go to school and provide a telepresence for homebound students. The goal for school-aged children who are ill, injured, or have disabilities is usually to get them back to school as soon as possible. If adaptive...
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by Alfred Poor | August 30, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Take 3D printing technology, add some clever chemistry, and you have the recipe for a “soft” autonomous robot that can move without being tethered to an external power source. In fact, it does not contain any electronics at all. This marvel was created by...
![Paraplegics Regain Control Through VR [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/08/Duke-Walk-Again-with-video-600x277.jpg?resize=600%2C277)
by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
An on-going program at Duke University, part of the Walk Again Project in Brazil, helps paralyzed patients regain partial feeling and control of their limbs. The program began in 2013. At the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil a patient from the project kicked off a game...
![Obi – Robotic Dining Companion [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/07/Obi-Feeding-Device-with-video-600x278.jpg?resize=600%2C278)
by Bruce Brown | July 20, 2016 | General News, Health
Unfortunately, there are many diseases and injuries that render a person unable to feed her or himself. In addition to the lack of independence people feel when they have to rely on others to feed them, the time required by caretakers to feed someone with nervous...
