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Now, self-healing materials can mimic human skin, healing again and again

...e researchers begin by building a scaffold using a robotic deposition process called direct-write assembly. The process employs a concentrated polymeric ink, dispensed as a continuous filament, to fabricate a three-dimensional structure, layer by layer. Once the scaffold has been produced, it is surrounde...

NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole

A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico’s mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, finding its previously undiscovered bottom 318 meters below the surface and generating a sonar map of its inner dim...

More recycling on the farm could reduce environmental problems

...me chemically treated fertilizer and would exploit robotic systems. The approach would entail more use of human labor, which is costly, and may reduce output per unit area farmed. Pearson summarizes studies of organic farming suggesting, however, that price premiums could overcome this disadvantage, and p...

From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone

...icles (ROVs). Deep sea ROVs are also equipped with robotic arms and suction devices that are used to collect species. "It's like a submarine that's manned from the surface," said Daly, who plans to head to Monterey Canyon later this year in hopes of finding more dead whales with A. pearseae roosting on th...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous...kes re-learning movement difficult. Typically, robotic rehabilitative devices are worn by patients so that the limb is moved by the brace, which receives i...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

A robotic therapy device may help people regain strength and...s prior participated in the pilot study using this robotic device. "Most spontaneous improvement in function occurs in the first three months after a strok...

In-shell vaccine for chick disease

...elivered to chicks still in the egg (in-ovo) using robotic 'vaccinators'. IBV is the worst infectious disease in terms of economic loss to the UK poultry industry. Infection can lead to severe respiratory disease, dramatically reduce egg production and affect the quality and hatchability of eggs. The ...

MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together

...ithout the use of tools such as the microscopes or robotic control arms typically required by MEMS devices. Because cells communicate via signals transmitted both through the touching of cell membranes and through soluble molecules that flow between separated cells, biologists need to vary the spacing of ...

Robotic whiskers can sense three-dimensional environment

...'s graduate students, have now developed arrays of robotic whiskers that sense in two dimensions, mimicking t...artmann. "We used this principle to make arrays of robotic whiskers that in many respects closely replicate rat whiskers." The technology, she said, could be u...

Sensory feedback during speech: The brain attunes to more than just sound

...bution of these cues from auditory cues by using a robotic device that slightly altered the path of the jaw's...s in the experiments learned to compensate for the robotic interference, thereby "correcting" the somatosensory feedback the brain receives during speech. This...

Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'

...skills. Ultimately, the research also could enable robotic surgical tools to perform with greater precision. ...earchers performed the suturing with the help of a robotic surgical device, which recorded the movements and made them available for computer analysis. "Sur...

New system could drastically reduce herbicide use

... is and isn't a weed. Once a weed is identified, a robotic arm attached to the front of the machine engages a...We could replace the grad student worker with this robotic system." That system evolved into today's model, and two different grad students worked with Tian...

Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity

... these same high frequency oscillations to control robotic devices in paralyzed patients. "This represents a paradigm shift in how we map brain function," said Berger. "As a neurosurgeon, I work within these very complicated cortical and subcortical areas where regions talk to each other, and there is a lev...

NAU researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus

...s on Mars. Once his team identifies Martian caves, robotic cave explorers will be developed to search for life under the Martian surface. His second project involves developing procedures for rapidly inventorying cave biodiversity. He has applied these methods to caves throughout northern Arizona and Belize....

Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions

...d close the fingers of a prosthetic hand and use a robotic limb to grasp and move objects. Despite a decline in neural signals after 6.5 months, Nagle remained an active participant in the trial and continued to aid the clinical team in producing valuable feedback concerning the BrainGate technology. The s...

Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors

Super-intense radiation delivered by a robotic arm eradicated lung tumors in some human patients ...ion delivery system that uses an accurate, precise robotic arm to aim highly focused x-ray beams at the site of a tumor. Currently there are 76 active CyberKn...

U of MN uses robotic surgery techniques in cardiac cell therapy research

...e University of Minnesota were successful in using robotic surgery to deliver stem cell treatment to damaged heart tissue in pigs. Using minimally invasive robotic surgery equipment, researchers injected the stem cells into the damaged hearts. The cells were "labe...

Tumor cells that border normal tissue are told to leave

...he tumor. Cagan's laboratory also has developed a robotic system for screening anticancer drugs, and they plan to use this system to look for drugs that will affect the metastatic process in their fruit fly model. "A drug that can prevent metastasis would be an important adjunct for cancer treatments," Cag...

Robot assisted surgery more accurate than conventional surgery

...y. The team of surgeons tested whether Acrobot, a robotic assistant, could improve surgical outcomes for pat...the operations took a few minutes longer using the robotic assistant, the replacement knee parts were more accurately lined up than in conventional surgery. Al...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

...cades. When UK Biobank is running nationwide, this robotic system will need to handle samples taken from around 1,000 people every day. Dr Tim Peakman, executive director of UK Biobank and in charge of running the first assessment centre in Altrincham, said: "This is a tremendously exciting project that ho...

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