News tagged with robot hand
Researchers develop novel Brain Training Device to reconnect brain and paralyzed limb after stroke
The world's first Brain Training Device has given a ray of new hope to the recovery of survivors after stroke. Developed by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, this novel device can detect brainwave and control ...
Neuroscience
May 16, 2013 |
not rated yet |
0
Sense of touch reproduced through prosthetic hand
In a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, neurobiologists at the University of Chicago show how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an art ...
Neuroscience
May 10, 2013 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Da Vinci's robot: Surgery is getting a renaissance
(Medical Xpress)—Robots are everywhere these days. They roam Mars, solve Rubik's cubes and vacuum our floors. Now, a robot named da Vinci is helping patients across the Penn State region get the major surgeries ...
Surgery
Apr 25, 2013 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Helpful for robotics: Brain uses old information for new movements
Information from the senses has an important influence on how we move. For instance, you can see and feel when a mug is filled with hot coffee, and you lift it in a different way than if the mug were empty. ...
Neuroscience
Apr 18, 2013 |
not rated yet |
0
Robot hot among surgeons but US taking fresh look (Update)
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries in America last year—triple the number just four years earlier.
Surgery
Apr 09, 2013 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Mind-controlled hand offers hope for the paralysed
Pentagon-backed scientists on Monday announced they had created a robot hand that was the most advanced brain-controlled prosthetic limb ever made.
Neuroscience
Dec 17, 2012 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
Do-it-yourself battlefield medicine saves lives
When Army Ranger Leroy Petry's hand was blown off by a grenade as he was saving his comrades in battle, he knew just what to do. He used his remaining hand to twist a tourniquet around his arm to avoid bleeding to death.
Other
Aug 15, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
