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Cybernetics and Robotics News - March 2010 Archives
Bionic Vision Australia today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept -- a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.
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 | The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye -- where it can treat that common disease -- almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists reported here today at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. ...> Full Article |
 | Professor Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give sight to blind eyes, merging retinal nerves with electrodes to stimulate cell growth. Successful so far in animal models, this research may one day lay the groundwork for retinal implants in people. ...> Full Article |
 | Arrhythmic hearts soon may beat in time again, with minimal surgical invasion, thanks to flexible electronics technology developed by a team of University of Illinois researchers, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Northwestern University. These biocompatible silicon devices could mark the beginning of a new wave of surgical electronics. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineers have created and tested a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart's electrical output that they say is a vast improvement over current devices. The new device represents the first use of flexible silicon technology for a medical application. The technology may herald the next generation of active, flexible, implantable devices for applications in cardiology and neurology. ...> Full Article |
 | If a siren sounded but you were deaf, might you still be able to hear the sound? That is a challenge being addressed by doctors at the University of Cincinnati's Functional Neuroscience Center.The center was recently designed one of a select number of national Auditory Brainstem Centers by Cochlear Corporation, and will study an investigational device designed to help deaf patients regain the ability to process some types of noise. ...> Full Article |
 | Screws used in surgical operations are often made of titanium. They usually have to be removed after a while or replaced by new ones. A new biomaterial makes this unnecessary. It promotes bone growth and is biodegradable. ...> Full Article |
The Basque Country has been the European capital of robotics for a few days, holding a conference in which, for the first time, the two main European entities on the subject were joined: the European Robotics Research Network -- EURON -- and the European Robotics Technology -- EUROP.
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Hip replacement patients with metal-on-metal implants (both the socket and hip ball are metal) pass metal ions to their infants during pregnancy, according to a new study presented today at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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 | Researchers have successfully reconstructed 3-D hand motions from brain signals recorded in a non-invasive way, according to a study in the March 3 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. This finding uses a technique that may open new doors for portable brain-computer interface systems. Such a non-invasive system could potentially operate a robotic arm or motorized wheelchair -- a huge advance for people with disabilities or paralysis. ...> Full Article |
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A new artificial intelligence technique to speed the planning of tasks when resources are limited
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Film coatings made from whey
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Bobsled runs -- fast and yet safe
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Running robots
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New book on computational analysis of human eye
Hips that function better and last longer
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