Robots

Technology 17 July 2020 By Alice Klein The massage robot from French firm Capsix is available to rentCapsix Robotics You can now get a massage without having to rely on another human being or leave your home, thanks to newly developed robot masseurs. French company Capsix Robotics and researchers at the University of Plymouth in…

By Gege Li The elephant’s trunk is made from biodegradable gelSoft Materials Lab, JKU Linz Soft, edible robots that mimic real organisms could find a use as way to deliver drugs to animals. That is just one potential application of a new material made from biodegradable gel. “The question is, could we develop a material…

By Donna Lu The flow of blood can’t hold back tiny drug-delivery robotsScience Photo Library / Alamy Tiny drug-carrying robots that can move against the direction of blood flow could one day be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to cancer cells. Metin Sitti at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany…

By Leah Crane The neurons in a rat’s spine were able to control 3D-printed musclesAlexander W Helin/Getty Images Robots made with rat spines could be used to study diseases as they progress through tissues, and may eventually lead to biological prosthetics. Collin Kaufman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his colleagues built biological…

GAIL: ROBODOCS CARE FOR ORLANDO HEALTH’S MOST CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS. THEY CAN DELIVER CARE AS LONG AS THERE IS A STRONG WIFI CONNECTION. WHEN WE FIRST PROFILED THIS TECHNOLOGY, DR. OSMAN FAROOQ SHOWED US JUST HOW ADVANTAGEOUS THE ROBOTS ARE WITH PATIENTS AS PART OF TELEMEDICINE, A MEANS OF REMOTELY CONNECTING A PATIENT AND THEIR…