39 minutes ago By Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor, BBC News ©2024 Takeuchi et al. CC-BY-ND Taking inspiration from human skin ligaments, the prototype face can be made to smile Japanese scientists have found a way to attach living skin to robot faces, for more realistic smiles and other facial expressions. The breakthrough came from copying tissue … Read more
New Delhi: Amazon Pharmacy is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to significantly improve the speed and accuracy of their prescription fulfilment process. This translates to same-day medication delivery for customers in select cities. The AI technology automates tasks that previously took pharmacists hours to complete, reducing them to minutes or even seconds. This frees up pharmacists … Read more
New Delhi: Kathija, looked peaceful as she lay on the operation table at Sparsh Hospital in Bengaluru, and Mako, a surgical robot, went into action. She had stage-4 arthritis in both knees, and had been confined to her home for many months. She finally decided to undergo a knee replacement surgery, hoping to relieve pain … Read more
Germany: The white-coloured humanoid “Garmi” does not look much different from a typical robot — it stands on a platform with wheels and is equipped with a black screen on which two blue circles acting as eyes are attached. But retired German doctor Guenter Steinebach, 78, said: “For me, this robot is a dream.” Not … Read more
Washington: The hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to combine soft materials, living muscle, and microelectronics, said researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and collaborating institutions. They described their centimeter-scale biological machines in the journal Science Robotics. “Integrating microelectronics allows the merger of the biological world and the electronics world, both with many … Read more
New Delhi: Robots are not uncommon in Bengaluru but now a government hospital in the city is experimenting with robots in intensive care units (ICUs). Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) has deployed a ‘robot’ to monitor patients being treated in intensive care units. The hospital management feels that the robot can substitute deployment … Read more
Cambridge: A recent study revealed that robots may be more effective than parent reported or self reported tests in diagnosing mental health disorders in youngsters. A team of roboticists, computer scientists and psychiatrists from the University of Cambridge carried out a study with 28 children between the ages of eight and 13 and had a … Read more
Aug. 23, 2022 – Your twice-daily brushing and flossing routine could someday be automated using tiny microrobots that scrub your teeth for a customized clean, thanks to new research from the University of Pennsylvania. Scientists used magnetic fields to assemble nanoparticles into tiny, brush-like robotic structures that precisely remove biofilms, a network of germs and … Read more
Aug. 2, 2022 – Imagine being wheeled into the operating room where your surgical team awaits – the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and … a tiny robot crab. Northwestern University scientists have built a super-small robot crab that could one day carry out delicate surgical tasks – entering your body to suture small, ruptured arteries, clear … Read more
A moist, disembodied finger floating in a petri dish is the latest biohybrid advance, a technology that fuses biological and non-biological materials together. University of Tokyo scientists debuted the artificial finger, claiming it could be the first use of a living skin equivalent grafted onto a working robot. Beyond its realistic appearance, the finger is … Read more