Caregiver Robot - Starting in the factories decades ago, robots are entering the homes. Japan is giving birth to a variety of caregiver robots in order to take care of their aging population. As an example, Kanagawa Institute of Technology designed the "Power Assist Suit" to cut labor burdens for caregivers.
The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot. Four years ago the Spanish company SENER became interested in the ongoing research by the Medical Robotics Group of the University of Malaga.
He's an Internet sensation, and millions of people have watched him dance his way around the screen. But as NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner reported Friday, there's more to this robot than meets the eye.
You have to ask whether they've really thought this through: using a giant robot rat to find disaster survivors. Victims might just decide to stay where they are.
BEVERLY, Mass., July 3 (UPI) -- Doctors at a Massachusetts Hospital are using New England's only medical robot to help diagnosis and treat patients at a hospital miles away from their offices.
Robot-driven fork-lift trucks are being employed in Les Sables d'Olonne, in the Vendee, France to dry-store yachts after a cruise enabling marinas to increase berthing space.
Wadley Regional Medical Center recently purchased a $2 million surgical robot to assist surgeons in performing a variety of procedures. The da Vinci Si Surgical System was installed at Wadley June 25 and surgeons are being trained on how to use the system.
A Chewing Robot which mimics the human jaw and teeth could revolutionise dental research, it has been revealed. The mechanical mandible allows experts to study the wear-and-tear on dental fittings like crowns and bridges without using costly human subjects.
BEVERLY - The robot glides past the beeping heart monitor, past a row of patients supine on their electric beds, past the beehive of the nurses’ station. The sleek, metallic body, dusky blue, stops outside Room 9 and slowly rolls through the doorway.