News tagged with haptic feedback

Tacit hand device steers blind to safety (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A hand device called the Tacit can help the blind and visually impaired move around safely in complex environments. Wrist-mounted, the device uses ultrasonic sensors mounted above the knuckles ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Researchers develop better training for keyhole surgery

Researcher Sanne Botden has improved the training methods for surgeons who perform keyhole operations. At present, a relatively large number of errors are made during surgery of this kind. She defends her ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Mogees project delivers haptic symphony (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creative sound-making is as fluid and changing as it implies, incorporating everything from troupes that bang on every hard surface imaginable to creators of electronic music, to musicians ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

Invisible computing comes to Asia tech expo

A robotic cook, a colouring book that comes to virtual life and movies that read your mind are some of the innovations on show at a cutting-edge computer technology exhibition in Hong Kong this week.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Medical robotics experts help advance NASA's 'satellite surgery' project

(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers design steady-handed robot for brain surgery

Neurosurgeons may one day get help in operating rooms from a robot with movements 10 times steadier than the human hand to perform delicate brain surgeries, the EU said Monday.

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Swarming robots - enhancing the communication in flying robot systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wouldn’t it be nice if each household had an electronic helper or if robots could fulfill the tasks that are too dangerous or troublesome for humans? Things that are taken for granted ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Can you feel the force?

Engineering students from the University of Leeds have found a way to let surgeons keep their sense of touch when operating at a distance with ‘keyhole’ techniques.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers aim for 'direct brain control' of prosthetic arms (w/ Video)

Engineering researchers at four U.S. universities are embarking on a four-year project to design a prosthetic arm that amputees can control directly with their brains and that will allow them to feel what ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New device puts vision impaired in the picture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visually impaired people may soon have greater access to graphical information thanks to a new device developed by Monash University’s Faculty of Information and Technology.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'RiceWrist' robot helps spinal-cord injury victim (w/ video)

Randy Childers' path to a laboratory at Rice University began on a motocross track in West Beaumont, Texas. The professional rider was injured in an accident while leading the last race of the day at Cowboy ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better learning through handwriting

Associate professor Anne Mangen at the University of Stavanger's Reading Centre asks if something is lost in switching from book to computer screen, and from pen to keyboard.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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