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Like a snail through the intestinal canal

...ive medical devices, such as, for example, a small robot that moves independently through the intestinal tr...s in fact to use this layer of mucus and allow the robot to imitate the forward movement of a snail. A snail leaves a trail of slime behind it on the ground....

Telemedicine robots help improve health

...of Queensland telemedicine researchers are using a robot named Eliza to conquer the tyranny of distance and...ty for specialist care. Local doctors take the robot to the bedside and thanks to a video-link, established via the Centre for Online Health, the sick ch...

New system could drastically reduce herbicide use

A solar-powered robot with 20/20 vision, on a search-and-destroy quest f...s at the University of Illinois. What's more, this robot has the potential to control weeds while significantly reducing herbicide use. The robot uses GPS f...

Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines

...artificial lateral line, a submarine or underwater robot could similarly detect and track moving underwater targets, and avoid collisions with moving or stationary objects. The artificial lateral line consists of an integrated linear array of micro fabricated flow sensors, with the sizes of individual se...

Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker

...iversity of California, Berkeley, have installed a robot in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge to hel...onditions, it's very difficult to capture." The robot stores images of the birds it has recorded in the hard disks of its computer, Logic Supply Inc.'s S-...

Is there a pilot in the insect?

...xperiments carried out on OCTAVE, a captive flying robot microhelicopter that can reproduce much of the mysterious natural insect behavior. Their work is published online in Current Biology, February 8, 2007. How does a tiny creature like a fly or a bee, with a brain the size of a pinhead, manage to make ...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

...ogram. HOWARD users initiate hand motion, with the robot monitoring and assisting the activity in order to ... weak and can only budge one-tenth of an inch, the robot helps to complete the task so the brain relearns what it's like to make the full movement." __IMAGE...

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