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Design and testing of a novel gastrointestinal microrobot.

Biomedical microdevices
In order to improve the reliability, safety and whole digestive applicability of the gastrointestinal microrobot (GMR), a novel inchworm-like GMR is proposed in this paper. The expanding mechanism of the robot adopts an overlapping expanding arm stru...

Design and control of a bionic needle puncture robot.

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
BACKGROUND: The application of minimally invasive interventional breast surgery is becoming more and more widespread. The accurate puncture of breast cancer needs to solve the problems of tissue deformation and target displacement.

Nothing to be ashamed of: sex robots for older adults with disabilities.

Journal of medical ethics
This paper spotlights ways in which sexual capacities relate to central human capabilities, such as the ability to generate a personally meaningful story of one's life; be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy; experience bodily integrity; aff...

Robot Assisted Ankle Neuro-Rehabilitation: State of the art and Future Challenges.

Expert review of neurotherapeutics
: Robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation is gaining acceptability among the physical therapy community. The ankle is one of the most complicated anatomical joints in the human body and neurologic injuries such as stroke often result in ankle and foot di...

State-Transition Modeling of Human-Robot Interaction for Easy Crowdsourced Robot Control.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Robotic salespeople are often ignored by people due to their weak social presence, and thus have difficulty facilitating sales autonomously. However, for robots that are remotely controlled by humans, there is a need for experienced and trained opera...

An Automated Planning Model for HRI: Use Cases on Social Assistive Robotics.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Using Automated Planning for the high level control of robotic architectures is becoming very popular thanks mainly to its capability to define the tasks to perform in a declarative way. However, classical planning tasks, even in its basic standard P...

Robot dramas may improve joint attention of Chinese-speaking low-functioning children with autism: stepped wedge trials.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
INTRODUCTION: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially those with low cognitive functioning, have deficits in joint attention. Previous research has found that these children are interested in engaging with social robots.

["Puppet accompaniment"-A geragogically based accompaniment approach].

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
BACKGROUND: Home care for older people with dementia (PwD) is associated with special needs and requires appropriate support services as well as learning and developmental impulses from a geragogical perspective. The accompanied use of robotic techno...

Integration of a Social Robot in a Pedagogical and Logopedic Intervention with Children: A Case Study.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
The effectiveness of social robots such as NAO in pedagogical therapies presents a challenge. There is abundant literature focused on therapies using robots with children with autism, but there is a gap to be filled in other educational different nee...