http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Robots will soon be able to feel heat or gentle touching on their surfaces. Researchers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen are now producing small hexagonal plates which when joined together form a sensitive skin for "machines with brains." This will not only help robots to better navigate in their environments, it will also enable robot self-perception for the first time. A single robotic arm has already been partially equipped with sensors and proves that the concept works. http://phys.org/news228567886.html Electronics Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:04:59 EST news228567886 The world's first remote heart procedure, using a robotic arm alongside 3-D mapping, is due to take place at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. http://phys.org/news209042831.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:50:04 EST news209042831 (AP) -- A company that has developed technology for controlling remote robotic arms over the Internet has adapted the system so that people around the world can play remotely with kittens. http://phys.org/news208638281.html Technology Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:30:01 EST news208638281 (PhysOrg.com) -- A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever designed. http://phys.org/news206894208.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:37:20 EST news206894208 One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence. http://phys.org/news204482386.html Technology Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:40:04 EST news204482386 (PhysOrg.com) -- They're mundane, yet daunting tasks: Tidying a messy room. Assembling a bookshelf from a kit of parts. Fetching a hairbrush for someone who can't do it herself. What if a robot could do it for you? http://phys.org/news204302288.html Electronics Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:38:20 EST news204302288 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tests underway in a JPL clean room will refine the precision of movements by a robotic arm that can reach more than 7 feet in front of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. http://phys.org/news203874294.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:45:17 EST news203874294 (PhysOrg.com) -- Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010. http://phys.org/news202987118.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:18:58 EST news202987118 Engineers have turned a robotic arm into a “Ferrari simulator,” enabling users to feel what it’s like to experience high-speed driving while controlling the car in a video game. As shown in the video below, players sit in the robotic arm positioned about two meters off the ground, and the arm twists and turns to simulate the car’s motion. http://phys.org/news201149109.html Technology Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:50:01 EST news201149109 Japanese emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cellphones in disaster zones. http://phys.org/news199683839.html Electronics Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:44:41 EST news199683839 Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly. http://phys.org/news199597102.html Electronics Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:20:03 EST news199597102 The members of the International Space Station’s Expedition 24 crew shifted their sleep schedule Monday in preparation for their mission's first spacewalk, waking up at about 2:40 p.m. EDT. http://phys.org/news199379035.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:20:01 EST news199379035 The work force at Lake Nona's Sanford-Burnham Institute includes 90 scientific staffers, 60 administrators and support personnel -- and a team of three robots. The trio is part of a $15 million investment from the National Institutes of Health, and occupies a large, glass-enclosed room on the bottom floor of Burnham's Lake Nona campus. http://phys.org/news198118105.html Electronics Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:50:01 EST news198118105 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are developing a new touch screen system, the HIRO III, that incorporates a robot hand that could offer a new way of simulating the touching of virtual objects and receiving feedback from them. http://phys.org/news197256614.html Technology Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:50:01 EST news197256614 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals. Researchers will use Curiosity in an intriguing area of Mars to search for modern or ancient habitable environments, including any that may have also been favorable for preserving clues about life and environment. http://phys.org/news196961925.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:30:06 EST news196961925 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a monkey controlling an advanced robotic arm by using its thoughts. The experiments were led by Dr. Andrew Schwartz, a professor of neurobiology and involved a high degree of complexity in the robotic arm, the level of control, and the intricacy of the manipulations. http://phys.org/news194796581.html Technology Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:10:02 EST news194796581 Scientists have discovered a cluster of underwater asphalt volcanoes rising from the sea floor just off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. http://phys.org/news191775179.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:30:01 EST news191775179 A pioneering world first robotics system operation is to be conducted at Glenfield Hospital Leicester thanks to expertise at the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester. http://phys.org/news191753232.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:47:33 EST news191753232 (PhysOrg.com) -- Industrial design modelling, used to make prototypes of home appliances or mock-ups of car parts, could soon make the leap from the world of plaster, plastic and sticky tape into the digital domain thanks to an augmented reality design system developed in Europe. http://phys.org/news189751850.html Technology Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:51:28 EST news189751850 Shaking hands with a robotic arm could be a new way to help stroke patients learn to use their arms again. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation report a pilot trial of the 'Braccio di Ferro' (Iron arm) robot in 10 patients. http://phys.org/news187870474.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:30:01 EST news187870474 Researchers have successfully reconstructed 3-D hand motions from brain signals recorded in a non-invasive way, according to a study in the March 3 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding uses a technique that may open new doors for portable brain-computer interface systems. Such a non-invasive system could potentially operate a robotic arm or motorized wheelchair -- a huge advance for people with disabilities or paralysis. http://phys.org/news186773632.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:34:20 EST news186773632 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two cardiothoracic surgeons at UC Davis Medical Center have performed the first robotic-assisted, multi-arterial, cardiac bypass procedure in California. The surgery, which took place in late January, is a highly complex but minimally invasive operation that offers patients quicker recovery times and less blood loss than conventional open-heart bypass procedures. http://phys.org/news185652981.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:10:01 EST news185652981 (PhysOrg.com) -- Almost exactly two years after the Columbus laboratory was added to the Space Station, the hi-tech Node-3, also ‘made in Europe’, was installed on the ISS this morning. http://phys.org/news185435857.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:10:01 EST news185435857 (PhysOrg.com) -- The list of remaining maneuvers being considered for extricating Spirit is becoming shorter. http://phys.org/news182709900.html Space & Earth Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:10:01 EST news182709900 Bioengineers have taken a small step toward improving physical recovery in stroke patients by showing that a key feature of how limb motion is encoded in the nervous system plays a crucial role in how new motor skills are learned. http://phys.org/news182093300.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:06 EST news182093300 Oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. http://phys.org/news180289662.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:28:41 EST news180289662 (PhysOrg.com) -- For many people, it has become routine to go online to check out a map before traveling to a new place. But for blind people, Google maps and other visual mapping applications are of little use. Now, a unique device developed at MIT could give the visually impaired the same kind of benefit that sighted people get from online maps. http://phys.org/news178219684.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:29:54 EST news178219684 (PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine the thrill of floating out of the International Space Station and into the emptiness of space and what it would be like to work on the orbiting science laboratory. http://phys.org/news174067652.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:20:03 EST news174067652 Japan on Friday launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year. http://phys.org/news171866723.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:10:02 EST news171866723 Japan early Friday launched its first cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year. http://phys.org/news171779379.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:00:01 EST news171779379