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• Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk
Noel Sharkey is a robotics expert not affiliated with the technology. The professor at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. said HAL will have wide-ranging benefits for the elderly others with movement disabilities. "HAL can only lead to extending ...
• Harvard gets its largest gift: $125 million
The new institute will bring together experts from numerous disciplines, including robotics, biology, computer science and surgery. It will build on the work of the existing Harvard Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, and ...
• The brains behind a blade runner
Besides producing carefully adapted artificial limbs to change the lives of disabled people, Iceland's Ossur, the world's only major listed prosthetics maker is also looking ahead to the day when robotics and neuroscience can change those of many more
• Rubber duckies help track melting glacier
When a sophisticated science probe failed to return any data about whether pools of melted glacial ice were showing up in the ocean, a NASA researcher turned to a decidedly low-tech solution: a brigade of rubber ducks. Robotics expert Alberto Behar ...
• Bye-bye to the bounce?
NASA, LHC, telecommunications, GPS, robotics, etc. These fields are the future, NOT oil, NOT war. As far as the bounce is concerned, I am seriously astonished that Mclame's rating or standing didnt go down. He is just starting to use the internet ...