In: Robotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
Enter the Surgineer
- January 13, 2020
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and DevicesStudent Stories
Jeff Siewerdsen’s full-year course series, called Surgineering, aims to prepare graduate students to bring new engineering perspectives to the operating room.
Plays well with humans
- December 19, 2019
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and DevicesUser-Centered Design
In the not-too-distant future, robots might assist us at home, school, hospitals, and workplaces. Roboticists and ethicists want to ensure they do so effectively, and help rather than hurt—even if it's just our feelings.
How to best behead a mosquito
- September 26, 2019
- Robotics, Augmented Reality, and Devices
Russell Taylor and students design a device to make it easier for biotech company Sanaria to develop a malaria vaccine.
PhD student Sergio Machaca awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
In the Haptics and Medical Robotics (HAMR) Laboratory led by Jeremy Brown, Machaca is investigating how haptic feedback can improve robotic surgery training.
Gopika Ajaykumar: Giving robots a new perspective
Some people think that robots are merely villains in science fiction movies. In reality, robots play an increasingly important role in...
Malone professors awarded NSF grant to investigate human-machine teaming in health care
- October 28, 2018
- Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceRobotics, Augmented Reality, and DevicesUser-Centered Design
The list of U.S. health care challenges is long and costly. The country spends more than $3 trillion dollars on healthcare...