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Learning to perform a new movement with robotic...
Learning to perform a new movement with robotic assistance: comparison of haptic guidance and visual demonstration By J Liu, SC Cramer and DJ Reinkensmeyer Background: Mechanical guidance with a robotic device is a candidate technique for teaching people desired movement patterns during motor... Read more ...
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Robots for ageing society
Via Pink Tentacle The CIRT consortium, composed by Tokyo University and a group of 7 companies (Toyota, Olympus, Sega, Toppan Printing, Fujitsu, Matsushita, and Mitsubishi), has started a project to develop robotic assistants for Japan’s aging population. The robots envisioned b... Read more ...
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The Huggable
Via Siggraph2006 Emerging Technology website The Huggable is a robotic pet developed by MIT researchers for therapy applications in children's hospitals and nursing homes, where pets are not always available. The robotic teddy has full-body sensate skin and smooth, qu... Read more ...
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Robot with the human touch feels just like us
From: Times (UK) A touch sensor developed to match the sensitivity of the human finger is set to herald the age of the robotic doctor. Until now robots have been severely handicapped by their inability to feel objects with anything like the accuracy of their human creators. The very... Read more ...
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HUMANOIDS 2006
HUMANOIDS 2006 - Humanoid Companions 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots December 4-6, 2006, University of Genova, Genova, Italy. From the conference website The 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots will be held on December 4 to... Read more ...
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Humanoids 2006 conference
2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots December 4-6, 2006, University of Genova, Genova, Italy. The 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots will be held on December 4 to 6, 2006 in Genova, Italy. The conference series started in Boston in the year 2000, tr... Read more ...
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Practicing medicine on robo-patients
Via RPTT These days, it seems that robots are very busy delivering drugs in hospitals or replacing nurses, doctors and even surgeons. But robots also can replace human patients. For example, at McMaster University in Canada, medical students are using robo-patients to practice their clin... Read more ...
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Robo-patients Allow Medical Students To...
via Science Daily Robotic, simulated patients are allowing students in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine to practise clinical skills before they reach human patients. A simulator lab training centre set up by the anesthesia department allows students to experience the challenges of... Read more ...
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Uncanny valley
From Wikipedia The Uncanny Valley is a principle of robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was theorized by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 . The principle states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its... Read more ...
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Aibo to fight obesity
Via Medical Informatics Insider According to New Scientist magazine, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plan to reprogram Sony's robot Aibo into a coach for dieters. The canine robot would be able to monitor daily food intake and exercise levels and encourage o... Read more ...