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Robots help you get dressed
Persons restricted to arm movement (accident, old age or disability) often find it particularly difficult to wear clothing.
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Assemble the phone into the prosthetic arm
A man in England has become the first patient in the world to have a smartphone grafted onto his prosthetic arm.
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Play games with thoughts
British scientists teach monkeys control the arms of a computer-literate character by their minds, a scientific breakthrough that can be useful to the disabled.
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Robot is a talented artist
An English painter has trained a robot to portray people like their abilities.
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Manipulate artificial hand by thought
For Jesse Sullivan, his prosthetic arm was particularly intelligent as it was controlled by the mind of the owner.
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Eleventh Prize-winning German cocktails
The robot is composed of lightweight plastic components, weighing only 2kg, lifting a 500g object.
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Robot replaced the surgeon
US scientists have invented a type of 'robot doctor' that can perform conventional surgical operations without the need for human intervention.
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Turn your arm into a touch screen
The right hand clung to the left forearm, both trembling slightly, she was trying to suppress her anxiety? No, she was using a mobile phone.
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Robot armchair for wheelchair users
Scientists have created a cheap robot arm that can do the job especially to help people in wheelchairs open the door.
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Robots create energy thanks to insects and plants
EATR - hold the leaves with its robotic arm, chew with a tiny wire saw and put it into the incinerator of the steam engine that it carries to make electricity.
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The engine of the future
A rotor-propeller engine with an external heat path, a lever-arm structure handled by a Russian scientific research team invented and rated as unique.
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Use the brain to manipulate the prosthesis
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have succeeded in teaching monkeys to use robotic arm by thought, opening up new hope for people with disabilities or paralyz…
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Robots help blind children learn to write
For the first time, blind children in New Zealand can learn to write with the help of a touch-screen computer and a robot arm.
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Robot massage
In the future, face massage machines in use in spas as well as hospitals in Japan can be replaced by robotic arms - the new invention of Waseda University scientists.
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Micro robot arm
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a relatively small machine arm of less than 1 mm in size, controlled by compressed air, opera…