The HCI RoomMate TV spells the days of having to listen to a fuzzy, distant radio or stare blankly at Countdown in your hospital bed could be over; it’s an Android-powered beast, and it could be coming to a hospital near you, NHS-money permitting. Read more
This is a brilliant Kinect hack. Doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto are using Kinect to manipulate medical images during surgery…
This is the 100th Aethon made robot to be deployed in US hospitals and the TUG seems to be doing a fine job in its new found medical assistant role, taking on board some of the more mundance tasks happily given to it by staff members.
We loved Asahi for bringing us the quick pouring robot last week yet realise this tipple serving technology could serve a wider, more needy audience than those just in need of an alcoholic beverage.
Meet Paro the seal, he’s no ordinary plaything but a highly developed robot designed and marketed as a therapeutic device to help comfort people with dementia, autism or other afflictions that can cause social isolation.