AIMC Topic: Equipment Design

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Artificial neural networks in the selection of shoe lasts for people with mild diabetes.

Medical engineering & physics
This research addressed the selection of shoe lasts for footwear design to help relieve the pain associated with diabetic neuropathy and foot ulcers. A reverse engineering (RE) technique was used to convert point clouds corresponding to scanned shoe ...

Polymer Analog Memristive Synapse with Atomic-Scale Conductive Filament for Flexible Neuromorphic Computing System.

Nano letters
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), memristors have received significant interest as a synaptic building block for neuromorphic systems, where each synaptic memristor should operate in an analog fashion, exhibiting multilevel accessible ...

Enabling single-site laparoscopy: the SPORT platform.

Surgical endoscopy
BACKGROUND: The Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology (SPORT) Surgical System by Titan Medical Inc. is designed to overcome the inherent challenges of minimally invasive single-access procedures. The aim of this preclinical study was to evaluate the...

Design and Implementation of a Bespoke Robotic Manipulator for Extra-corporeal Ultrasound.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
With the potential for high precision, dexterity, and repeatability, a self-tracked robotic system can be employed to assist the acquisition of real-time ultrasound. However, limited numbers of robots designed for extra-corporeal ultrasound have been...

Shape memory alloy reinforced 5 mm ultra-thin rigid link surgical instrument with force-feedback.

Journal of medical engineering & technology
We report the development of a rigid link surgical instrument for surgical robotics. The device is only 5 mm in diameter and equipped with a shape memory alloy for better gripping, which avoids the use of mechanical gears. This ultra-thin instrument ...

Myoelectric control algorithm for robot-assisted therapy: a hardware-in-the-loop simulation study.

Biomedical engineering online
BACKGROUND: A direct blow to the knee is one way to injure the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), e.g., during a football or traffic accident. Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) rehabilitation, simulating regular walking, improves walking and balance abilit...

Swall-E: A robotic in-vitro simulation of human swallowing.

PloS one
Swallowing is a complex physiological function that can be studied through medical imagery techniques such as videofluoroscopy (VFS), dynamic magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES). VFS is the gold ...

Probabilistic Kinematic Model of a Robotic Catheter for 3D Position Control.

Soft robotics
Continuum robots offer compliant and dexterous operations, which are suitable to be used in unstructured environments. Tendon-driven catheters, owing to their continuum structure, are applied in minimal invasive surgeries such as intracardiac interve...

Exo-Glove Poly II: A Polymer-Based Soft Wearable Robot for the Hand with a Tendon-Driven Actuation System.

Soft robotics
This article presents Exo-Glove Poly (EGP) II, a soft wearable robot for the hand with a glove that is completely constructed of polymer materials and that operates through tendon-driven actuation for use in spinal cord injury (SCI). EGP II can resto...

Measuring Oxygen Saturation With Smartphone Cameras Using Convolutional Neural Networks.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Arterial oxygen saturation ([Formula: see text]) is an indicator of how much oxygen is carried by hemoglobin in the blood. Having enough oxygen is vital for the functioning of cells in the human body. Measurement of [Formula: see text] is typically e...