Cybernetics and Robotics News - April 2009 Archives
Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is the first center in Chicago and among the first in the country to implant a new experimental left ventricular assist device into subjects with advanced heart failure, a condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body's organs.
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The first clinical test of an Australian bionic eye is likely to take place within two years and be commercialized within five according to University of Melbourne researchers, thanks to a $50 million funding boost from the Federal Government.
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 | LTC Greg Gadson is the first to receive world's most advanced prosthetic legs ...> Full Article |
Northwestern University researchers have shown that it could be possible to control a limb by stimulating groups of muscles rather than individual muscles -- a finding that could be useful in future treatments of paralysis patients. The research team used a model of the muscles in a frog's hind leg to perform a computational analysis that shows researchers can control the limb using muscle groups just about as well as if they controlled individual muscles.
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 | In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter -- just by thinking about it. ...> Full Article |
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. The work is published today in the journal Science.
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Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump, according to a just-completed study of the device. Results of this third-generation heart assist device were reported at the 58th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on March 30.
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 | The goal is for the robot -- which has the working name of Roony -- to be able to place the cabin on the moon in 2012 ...> Full Article |
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Fish can recognize a face based on UV pattern alone
Ancient DNA from rare fossil reveals that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly
'Anaconda' meets 'Jurassic Park': Study shows ancient snakes ate dinosaur babies
Scientists locate apparent hydrothermal vents off Antarctica
Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos
Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
Predicting the fate of stem cells
New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing
What drives our genes? Researchers map the first complete human epigenome
Juggling enhances connections in the brain
Tracking down the human 'odorprint'
Fill 'er up - with algae
Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Researchers help identify cows that gain more while eating less
Researchers reconstruct 3-D hand movement using brain signals
Artificial foot recycles energy for easier walking
New material mimics bone to create better biomedical implants
Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout
'Artificial pancreas' a step nearer for children with type 1 diabetes
Smart coating opens door to safer hip, knee and dental implants
Researchers eyeing new way to measure elusive zinc
Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight