| Robotic Brace Aids Stroke Recovery
At age 32, Maggie Fermental suffered a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. After a year and a half of conventional therapy with minimal results, she tried a new kind of robotic therapy developed by MIT engineers. A study to appear in the April 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation shows that the device, which helped Fermental, also had positive results for five other severe stroke patients in a pilot clinical trial. Fermental, a former surgical nurse, used the rehabilitation device 18 times over nine weeks. After 16 sessions, Fermental, now a stroke education nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, was able to fully bend and straighten her elbow on her own for the first time since the stroke. "It was incredible to be able to move my arm again on command," she said.
Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer?
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist's technology blog reports that Dyson, the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner, is recruiting robotics engineers. They're looking for people with experience of machine vision and mobile robots that create their own maps. Is Dyson hoping to take on the Roomba with a much more sophisticated machine?" .
Entrepreneurs, unlike robots, will betray themselves by their passion
In the movie "Blade Runner," there was a species of sub-humans called Replicants that despite their human appearance and actions were just robots. In order to discern a Replicant from a regular human, one had to administer the telltale Voight-Kampff test. .
BUiD students record outstanding results
Six graduate students at The British University in Dubai (BUiD) have been internationally recognised for the excellence of their research.
The British University in Dubai is the sole research-driven postgraduate university in the region. This unique arrangement reflects the universitys high academic standards and rewards students for developing original investigations into a wide range of practical problems facing the professions and wider society.
Recent events vindicate BUiDs novel strategy. Speaking opportunities and offers of publication have opened up to these high achievers, based on their well-researched papers.
We are extremely proud of the way our students can compete with academics the world over, said BUiD Vice-Chancellor Dr. Abdullah M.
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