News tagged with robotic mouse

Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients say it's 'too easy'

One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence.

Technology / Other

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Robotic Mouse Makes Maze Debut at UCSD (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An intrepid group of UC San Diego undergraduate engineers designed and built a robotic mouse from scratch as part of the IEEE MicroMouse competition.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Zebrafish may help speed drug discovery

Tiny zebrafish just may give scientists one solution to information overload in the search for new drugs therapies.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New automated imaging to greatly speed whole-brain mapping efforts

A new technology developed by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) transforms the way highly detailed anatomical images can be made of whole brains. Until now, means of obtaining such images ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Can robots take over rehab?

Visiting the iMove center at UC Irvine's Gross Hall is like being on the set of a sci-fi movie. Here, the merging of machines and humans — the premise of such futuristic films as "Alien" and "The Terminator" ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New discovery could lead to treatment for Angelman syndrome

Results of a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may help pave the way to a treatment for a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or autism.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study of comic books helps Stanford scholars identify cultural trends

Robots and mythical creatures battle each other in cartoon-like drawings spread across a table. A crowd gathers around to take a closer look at the vibrantly colored images from the pages of the award-winning ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Whiskers marked milestone in evolution of mammals from reptiles

Research from the University of Sheffield comparing rats and mice with their distance relatives the marsupial, suggests that moveable whiskers were an important milestone in the evolution of mammals from reptiles.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clear vision despite a heavy head: Model explains the choice of simple movements

The brain likes stereotypes - at least for movements. Simple actions are most often performed in the same manner. A mathematical model explains why this is the case and could be used to generate more natural robot movements ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft engineer envisions computers that adapt to us

For decades, we controlled computers with a mouse and keyboard. The plastic mouse became a prosthetic for our hand, and the keyboard an extension of our fingers.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Lego robot that can make you Micky Mouse shaped pancakes (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robotics is a serious science, but like all of the most serious things in this world it does have a fun side too. Sometimes a robot, with all of its advanced equipment and the intense hours ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

There's a mouse in the maze

First, there was Mickey Mouse. Then came Mighty Mouse. Now, at the dawn of the 21st century, comes micromouse, the little robot that could. Actually, a total of 13 micromice visited the UC San Diego campus ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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