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ARM Institute Selects Eight New Robotics Projects for Funding

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…AI Robot Programming Assistance Lead: University of Memphis Partners: READY Robotics, FedEx, DeepHow Description: There are technologies that can now dramatically reduce the knowledge necessary to program and install a robot, using no-code methods that make robotic programming accessible to those on the factory floor. However, there is still the limitation of process automation knowledge that can bottleneck or be…

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Johns Hopkins STAR Performs First Robotic Laparascopic Surgery Without Human Guidance

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…of researchers at Johns Hopkins University yesterday announced that the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR, has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without human guidance. The researchers described their work in Science Robotics. “Our findings show that we can automate one of the most intricate and delicate tasks in surgery: the reconnection of two ends…

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Stereotaxis Surgical Robot Deployments Spread to Aid Cardiac Ablation

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…the Barnes-Jewish Hospital at the Washington University Medical Campus. It has been working with Stereotaxis since 2005 to develop the technology, said Fischel. “BJC's hospitals have remained part of our innovation efforts,” he said. “During the development of Genesis and our imaging system, we've incorporated practical feedback from various nurses and physicians. For example, the table needs to provide good…

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Starship Technology Begins Robotic Delivery Service at North Carolina A &T

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…Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and its food services provider, Sodexo, have partnered with Starship Technologies to roll out the university’s food delivery service via autonomous robots. N.C. A&T is the first historically Black college or university to partner with Starship, as well as its first partnership in North Carolina. “As a STEM university, A&T and Sodexo’s partnership with…

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Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics Advance With New and Safer Power Sources

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…electrical engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington has focused on developing a safer battery specifically to power drones inspecting mines. Such drones could go deep into a mine and perform inspections that would otherwise be difficult for a human to do. David Wetz has been conducting research based on his background in energy storage. He examined battery…

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Robotic Deliveries Quadruple During Pandemic, Reports Starship Technologies

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…which has offices in London; Washington, D.C.; Hamburg, Germany; and Tallinn, Estonia, said that its robotic services have proved to be especially popular with college students. It said that college campuses repeatedly set delivery records in the past year. This “on-demand generation” will help fuel the need for autonomous delivery well into the future, it said. “I hadn’t even heard…

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Pushing the Printed Electronics Envelope

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…and photonics lab at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). “We are not doing as good as we could at innovating new things that 3D printing enables.” This is not to say that developers of the technology lack a vision of what 3D-printed electronics can be; far from it. Current printing technology and recent research developments offer a…

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Printing Glucose Sensors Results in Less Cost, Pain

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…of toxic materials. Researchers at Washington State University have found a way to produce flexible glucose sensors using 3D printing via direct ink writing. They are using a nanoscale material that is electrically conductive and flexible, and claim to be able to produce biosensors that are more accurate using production methods that are less material intensive. The team, led by…

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