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The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs).

Bioethics
It may only be a handful of years before fully autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs) are pushed into widespread clinical adoption. Nevertheless, whether it is ethical to greenlight the development and adoption of ANRs is still up for debate. On the ...

A Memristive Spiking Neural Network Circuit for Bio-Inspired Navigation Based on Spatial Cognitive Mechanisms.

IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Cognitive navigation, a high-level and crucial function for organisms' survival in nature, enables autonomous exploration and navigation within the environment. However, most existing works for bio-inspired navigation are implemented with non-neuromo...

Navigating autonomy, privacy, and ageism in robot home care with aged users: A preliminary analysis of ROB-IN.

Bioethics
In this article, I propose an ethical analysis of assistive domestic robots for older users. In doing so, I illustrate my inquiry with the example of ROB-IN assistive robot. ROB-IN is a Spanish project which is devoted to developing a robot that will...

Evolving Therapeutic Landscape of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Emerging Cutting-Edge Advancements in Surgical Robots, Regenerative Medicine, and Neurorehabilitation Techniques.

Translational stroke research
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most serious form of stroke and has limited available therapeutic options. As knowledge on ICH rapidly develops, cutting-edge techniques in the fields of surgical robots, regenerative medicine, and neurorehabilit...

Enhanced neuroplasticity and gait recovery in stroke patients: a comparative analysis of active and passive robotic training modes.

BMC neurology
BACKGROUND: Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, with lower limb dysfunction being a common sequela that significantly impacts patients' mobility and quality of life. Robotic-assisted training has emerged as a promising intervention for...

Early efficacy observation of suspended lower-limb rehabilitation robot-assisted therapy in patients with intensive care unit-acquired weakness: a study protocol for a self-controlled randomised controlled trial.

BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) is a common and severe complication in critically ill patients, associated with high morbidity and poor prognosis. Despite increasing focus on ICUAW, definitive diagnostic and therapeutic st...

Robotic radiation shielding system reduces radiation-induced DNA damage in operators performing electrophysiological procedures.

Scientific reports
Fluoroscopically guided electrophysiology (EP) procedures expose operators to low doses of ionizing radiation, which can induce DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and raises increasing concerns regarding potential health risks. A novel robotic radiation...

Biomolecular Actuators for Soft Robots.

Chemical reviews
Biomolecules present promising stimuli-responsive mechanisms to revolutionize soft actuators. Proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids foster specific intermolecular interactions, and their boundless sequence design spaces encode precise actuation capab...

Evaluating the effects of active social touch and robot expressiveness on user attitudes and behaviour in human-robot interaction.

Scientific reports
Touch plays a crucial role in human social interaction and emotional communication. Social touch refers to touching others in social contexts, serving purposes like greetings, affection, persuasion, and emotional regulation. Social robots are autonom...

From human hand joints to continuum robot: how articular surface morphology shapes flexibility and stability in template-based designs.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
The design of continuum robots often involves a dilemma between flexibility and stiffness, where increased flexibility may reduce stiffness and control precision. The human hand achieves both power grasp and precision grasp by leveraging different jo...