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		<title>Clostridium sporogenes bacteria could aid in fight against solid tumors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clostridium sporogenes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of researchers from the University of Nottingham and the University of Maastricht have succeeded to employ a bacterium that is widespread in soil in order to fight cancer. They managed to modify a bacterial strain to specifically targets tumors without harming healthy tissue, and it could be used as a vehicle to deliver [...]

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		<title>Smart lower-limb prosthetic enables amputees to walk with less effort</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/bionics/smart-lower-limb-prosthetic-enables-amputees-to-walk-with-less-effort.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bionics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artificial legs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosthesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosthetic limb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vanderbilt university]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from the Vanderbilt University developed a prosthetic with powered knee and ankle joints that operate in unison, thus allowing its wearers to walk without the leg-dragging gait characteristic of conventional artificial legs. The bionic leg is programmed to use the motion data in order to predict what the person is trying to do and [...]

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		<title>Sandia Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot could aid in future miner rescues</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/sandia-gemini-scout-mine-rescue-robot-could-aid-in-future-miner-rescues.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gemini-scout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rescue robots]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sandia national lab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a mining accident occurs, potentially deadly conditions such as poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors, unstable walls and roofs, and unknown obstacles between the surface and trapped workers can significantly slow the rescue efforts. Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories developed the Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot in order to collects information about potential dangers and [...]

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		<title>A wearable device that vibrates fingertip could improve wearer&#8217;s touch</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/bionics/a-wearable-device-that-vibrates-fingertip-could-improve-wearers-touch.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bionics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[georgia institute of technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[georgia tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piezoelectric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of touch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stochastic resonance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tactile sensitivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vibration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a glove with a special fingertip which employs stochastic resonance in order to improve the wearer’s sense of touch and motor performance. The technology could be used to assist individuals whose jobs require high-precision manual dexterity or those with medical conditions that reduce their sense of [...]

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		<title>RIBA II &#8211; improved robotic nursing care aid from Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nursing care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tactile sensors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has a growing number of elderly in need of nursing care and an urgent need for new approaches used to assist care-giving personnel. Researchers at RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI) are developing a robot which performs one of the most exhausting tasks for such personnel &#8211; lifting a patient from a futon at [...]

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		<title>Monirobo robots used to monitor radiation in Fukushima</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/monirobo-robots-used-to-monitor-radiation-in-fukushima.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[monitoring robot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the 9.0 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that struck off the coast of Honshu Island, the cooling systems of three reactor units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant became severely damaged. Although Japan is well known for their share in robot development, there are no robots built to deal with nuclear disasters and [...]

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		<title>NEC PaPeRo robot used to provide activities information to elderly</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/nec-papero-robot-used-to-provide-activities-information-to-elderly.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information interaction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nec]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal robot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PaPeRo (Partner-type-Personal-Robot) – a personal robot from NEC Corporation – has been developed since 1997. It is being developed to interact with people and provide them with more information or entertain them. Due to increasing number of elderly people living alone, the folks from NEC conducted a research where they programmed PaPeRo to provide them [...]

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		<title>Word Lens – augmented reality app able to translate foreign text around you</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article about an application that offers on-the-fly video translations or processing from the printed text it is able to recognize. Although the news about Word Lens from Quest Visual was viral a few days ago, we didn’t publish our article about it before we managed to get some additional information about the [...]

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		<title>Wound infections can be monitored without dressing removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether a small cut with a fruit knife, a surgical wound or a major injury caused by a fall, the body’s defense and repair system leaps into action and tries to close the wound as quickly as possible. In order to make sure any complications in the healing process are detected at an early stage, [...]

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		<title>Berkeley Bionics eLEGS exoskeleton could help paraplegics walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Bionics developed the first practical exoskeleton and the first untethered exoskeleton in the world. Later on, through a licensed agreement with Lockheed Martin Corporation, they came up with HULC exoskeleton which is meant for military use. A few days ago they unveiled similarly looking eLEGS, a wearable, artificially intelligent, bionic device that powers paraplegics [...]

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