Helping children w/ Autism
Milo is a robot developed by American humanoid manufacturer Robokind to support children with Autism. Two-feet tall, it has been designed specifically for parents, therapists, and educators to teach children social skills.
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Watch a robot help a child w/autism. Helping people w/ spinal injuries. Robots are truly Amazing!
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Assisting Patients w/ Spinal Injuries
Exoskeletons demonstrate the potential robotics has in the medical world. Ekso Bionics, a company based in Richmond, California, has been manufacturing them for over ten years, working primarily with the military.
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Robot Helps Child w/ Autism
UConn researcher Tim Gifford is studying how robots can help children with autism learn and communicate. The research is currently being conducted with students in kindergarten through fifth grade at Whiting Lane Elementary School in West Hartford, CT. To learn more about the robot.
Two more Amazing Robots
Robo Bees
Can engineers master the mechanics of flight, at the scale of insects?
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While many robot designs are modeled on humans, others are inspired by creatures in nature. Scientists at Harvard University have created the RoboBee, a tiny flying robot that is “inspired by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior.” Besides copying the bee’s physical design, the scientists are also trying to “mimic the sophisticated behavior of a real colony of insects” through the use of “sophisticated coordination algorithms, communications methods (i.e., the ability for individual machines to ‘talk’ to one another and the hive), and global-to-local programming tools to simulate the ways groups of real bees rely upon one another to scout, forage, and plan.”
DEKA Arm System
The system was developed by DEKA Integrated Solutions for DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics
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DEKA Research and Development Corporation recently secured FDA approval to market its DARPA-funded DEKA Arm System. The robotic arm is said to be the first device to be capable of making multiple and simultaneous movements through muscle contractions detected by electromyogram (EMG) electrodes.