Robot

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24 August 2012

Robot supports high dependency patients

A telepresence robot that allows clinicians to remotely listen to a patient’s heart and lungs is in use at a
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12 March 2010

France’s Robosoft create caring robot

French robotics company, Robosoft, has created a robot that can speak, understand what is said to it and find its
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21 August 2009

Robot report calls for greater debate

The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report on the social, legal and ethical issues of using robots in
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14 August 2009

Dutch set out European ‘robo roadmap’

Dutch innovation agency, TNO, has published a ‘robo roadmap’ on the way forward for robotics in the medical and health
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4 August 2009

Norwegian nurses warm to robots

A Norwegian study has shown that staff in the nursing care sector would welcome sensor and robot technology in the
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22 July 2009

Vein crawling mini robot developed

The Israeli Institute of Technology has created a miniature crawling robot small enough to crawl through human veins.
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17 July 2009

Malaga Uni develops surgical robot

Laparoscopic surgery has been performed for the first time using a robotic assistant at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la
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20 April 2009

New robot to assist elderly at home

The RobuLAB French robotics specialist Robosoft and SRI International have demonstrated a new service robot designed to assist the elderly
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4 August 2008

Satellite-linked robot does ultrasound at sea

French robotic specialist Robosoft has partnered with the European Mobile and Robotised Telechography (MARTE) project, to carry out the first
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21 July 2008

‘Choozomatic’ praised by NHS Institute

The ‘Choozomatic’ – a patient voice-activated, touch screen device that is wirelessly linked to wristbands telling doctors and nurses who
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