The University of Greenwich has joined forces with a Kent-based company in the design and manufacture of a bomb disposal robot for use by security forces, including the British Army.
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Researchers find people can better understand robot movements when robots move in a more human way.
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Cognitive skills for a new robot which will help people with damaged limbs to walk again are being developed by researchers in the UK.
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Researchers have found that they can program a robot to understand when it gains a human’s attention and when it falls short.
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Researchers have found people generally had a positive response toward being touched by a robotic nurse, but that their perception of the robot’s intent made a significant difference.
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Scientists have developed a programmable “molecular robot” — a sub-microscopic molecular machine made of synthetic DNA that moves between track locations separated by 6nm. The robot, a short strand of DNA, follows instructions programmed into a set of fuel molecules determining its destination, for example, to turn left or right at a junction in the [...]
When hospitals acquire surgical robotic technology, men in that region are more likely to have prostate cancer surgery, a new study shows.
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Researchers are using a new model to learn more about how toe strength can determine how far people can lean while keeping their balance. The results could help in building robotic body parts that will closely imitate human movement, and might lead to a new generation of advanced prosthetics.
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Researchers in Europe have developed an antonym-based technique for building maps for mobile robots. This technique can be applied to improve current robot navigation systems. Another advantage of the technique is that the low-cost ultrasonic sensors that it uses are built into almost all robotic platforms and produce a smaller volume of data for processing.
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