The NIH has awarded three projects $2.4 million over the next five years to develop innovative robots which work cooperatively with people and adapt to changing environments. The robotics will improve human capabilities and enhance medical procedures.
Researchers are attempting to teach two-legged robots a stable, and robust human way of walking.
Researchers develop a new blueprint for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs. The findings could someday convey real-time sensory information for amputees.
When an explosive ordnance robot is destroyed, soldiers feel loss, sadness and anger, a researcher discovers.
Researchers have discovered a complex and novel visual circuit in the brains of dragonflies. They hope the findings could some day help to improve vision systems for robots.
Researchers develop a steerable needle robot which can penetrate the brain and suction away blood clots.
Researchers use bio-inspired robots to elicit fear response in zebrafish. They also discover the reaction can be modulated by alcohol.
Researchers show insect limbs can move without muscles. The finding could provide engineers to find additional ways to improve the control of robotic and prosthetic limbs.
Researchers discover people express more positive feelings towards a robot that would take care of them than a robot which needed their care.
A robot developed by Cornell scientists has learned to foresee human actions in order to offer a helping hand; even open a beer.
Vanderbilt researchers develop a humanoid robotic system to help teach autistic children to coordinate their attention with objects and other people in their environment.
New insight obtained by studying the gait of cockroaches could provide valuable information on how biological systems stabilize. The research could help to develop more stable robots and provide doctors with better understanding on human gait abnormalities.