Studies have shown that with the right amount of white noise in the background, peoples’ sight, hearing, balance control and sense of touch improve. Utilizing stochastic resonance, whi... Read more
Providing robots with sensory inputs is one of the keys to the development of more capable and useful machines. Sight and hearing are the most common senses bestowed upon our mechanical frie... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers are working on bringing the sense of touch to prosthetics Although modern prosthetic devices are more lifelike and easier for amputees to control than ever be... Read more
Robot-assisted surgery has a number of advantages over traditional surgery – it’s steadier, more precise, less invasive, plus the surgeon doesn’t even have to be in the same room (or contine... Read more
Using a process described as “a lint roller in reverse,” engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, have created a pressure-sensitive electronic artificial skin from semiconducto... Read more
Luke Skywalker/Steve Austin-like bionic hands might seem like something straight out of… well, science fiction, but they’re most definitely not. There are now actually several companie... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The human body is an amazingly complex bit of kit. Replicating it with bionic technology presents challenges on many fronts, including the formidable task of mimicking ou... Read more