In: Robotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
![Headshot of Chien-Ming Huang.](https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JHU1127-600x400.jpg)
Chien-Ming Huang awarded Hopkins AITC funding
- April 4, 2024
- Center NewsRobotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
This round of grant recipients will receive funding to develop new artificial intelligence technologies to promote healthy aging.
![Images of the (b) monopolar electrosurgical instrument; (c) vacuum grasping instrument; (d) dual-camera vision system, sample holder, grounding pad, smoke evacuation tube, linear motion stage; and (e) simulated clinical setting featuring a porcine tongue specimen stretched using retraction sutures. The close views during the (f) surface incision and (g) deep margin dissection for a pseudotumor on a porcine tongue tissue.](https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ASTR-multi-740x494-1-600x400.jpg)
Robotic surgeon precisely removes cancerous tumors
- March 1, 2024
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
The Autonomous System for Tumor Resection, designed by a team of Johns Hopkins researchers, can remove tumors from the tongue with accuracy rivaling—or even potentially exceeding—that of human surgeons.
![Diagram of an eye receiving photoacoustic retinal stimulation via an epiretinal implant. Red arrows represent a laser pulse hitting the implant, which generates blue acoustic waves depicted as wavy lines that stimulate the underlying retinal cells.](https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/retina-implant-980x654-1-600x400.jpg)
New nanomaterial for retinal implants could someday help restore sight for millions
- February 16, 2024
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
Emad Boctor and Seth Billings's approach converts light into sound, activating damaged eye cells.
![A person tests out the da Vinci Research Kit.](https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Guido-600x400.jpg)
Could an electric nudge to the head help your doctor operate a surgical robot?
- December 20, 2023
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
A Johns Hopkins study finds stimulating people’s brains with gentle electric currents can boost learning.
![A group of four young people stands around a computer. One wears glasses and has a black prosthetic arm.](https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ProsthesisUserStockPhoto-600x400.jpg)
Putting prosthetics research back in touch
- October 25, 2023
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and DevicesUser-Centered Design
Researchers urge the greater prosthesis engineering community to listen to end users' actual needs.
![Headshot of Mathias Unberath.](https://malonecenter.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mathias-Unberath-1-600x400.jpg)
Mathias Unberath receives NSF Early CAREER Award
- May 17, 2023
- Center NewsRobotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
The award recognizes his work on human-centered medical solutions embodied in emerging technologies.