Tag: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

While surgical robots are much more precise than clunky human hands, the surgeons who use these devices aren't able to guide the 'bots with their natural sense of touch, and this can make it easier to bump into a delicate organ or artery. In response to this problem, some graduate engineering students at the University of Washington recently developed an Xbox 360 Kinect hack, which uses the ...

A metal robot may not look like a human being, but as long as it acts like one, babies won't be able to tell the difference. That's the conclusion that researchers at University of Washington reached, after studying the ways 18 -month-year-old babies interact with humanoid bots. To observe the baby-bot dynamic, scientists placed each child in a room with a remote-controlled robot along with ...

Chances are you've heard how the great majority of our brain cells sit more or less idle, seemingly just taking up space or doing something we haven't yet figured out. Scientists are finding they may be able to tap into that resource to re-train brains to control paralyzed limbs with a little help from external electrical stimulation. That's a concept proven by scientists at the University of ...