Dr. Boris Rubinsky, Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering; Professor, Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley introduces us to his revolutionary technology of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). EIT develops an image of the electrical impedance...

Robosoft's recently unveiled robot combines advantages of internet and robotics technologies to provide daily-life services to people staying at home, the disabled and the elderly. It allows service providers to customize and offer various services to their customers. Some of its numerous functions...

The Visica 2 Treatment System is a premier product for the management and treatment of fibroadenomas. The Visica 2 ICE Probes deliver therapeutic freezing temperatures to targeted tissue to ablate or localize tissue. It is a minimally invasive procedure replacing the more costly surgical procedure for...

The aliphatic polycarbonates created by Cornell chemist Geoffrey Coates are safe and strong enough to be used in medical implants and devices. They're also used as extremely effective binders for the creation of non-oxide ceramics, which are often used as components experiencing high compressive...

MIRTHE is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center headquartered at Princeton University, with partners City College New York, Johns Hopkins University, Rice, Texas A&M, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The center encompasses a world-class team of engineers, chemists...

QC lasers are a rapidly evolving class of high-performamce, mid-infrared, semiconductor light sources. They offer considerable wavelength tunability, high output power, high-speed modulation capabilities and may be fabricated in several different materials systems. At Princeton, Dr. Claire Gmachl's...

A new robotic hand developed by the German Aerospace Institute and the Harbin Institute of Technology uses servo-actuators which are completely integrated into the hand allowing the four fingers, each with three degrees of freedom, to grip with torque and tactile sensors imitating human motor functions...

Barrett Technologies uses wire cables and brushless motors to produce a high torque and near zero-friction robotic arm that is completely backdrivable. Equipped with a robotic hand that has self-contained motors and processors, the system can be mounted on and run off a Segway's own battery system...

Researchers at the Human Neuromechanics Laboratory, University of Michigan , are studying human locomotion and artificial muscles that have very high power output at a very low weight and are designed for patients with neurological disorders to aid in movement. [Video]

Using servo motors, magnetic encoders for monitoring and differential force on springs to create torque, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are creating robotic legs that can walk, run, jump; something we don't even think about when we do these activities. [Video]