News tagged with artificial foot

Artificial foot recycles energy for easier walking (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An artificial foot that recycles energy otherwise wasted in between steps could make it easier for amputees to walk, its developers say.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Many diabetic foot amputations are preventable

(AP) -- It costs $1,400 to cover the oozing sore on the diabetic's foot with a piece of artificial skin, helping it heal if patients keep pressure off that spot. So when Medicare paid for the treatment but not the extra ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques

Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

NRL designs robot for shipboard firefighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New system allows robots to continuously map their environment

Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Small things, big thinking

Finely tuned for touch and smell, the fly foot has sensors that can detect both chemical and mechanical changes in the environment.  The outcome of more than three billion years of evolution, these sensors are far smaller ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

How the 'street pigeon' got its fancy on

Pigeons display spectacular variations in their feathers, feet, beaks and other physical traits, but a new University of Utah study shows that visible traits don't always coincide with genetics: A bird from ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New path to flex and stretch electronics: Researchers develop solution-based fabrication technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make "smart devices" nearly ubiquitous. Among the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In the quantum world, diamonds can communicate with each other

Researchers working at the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford in England have managed to get one small diamond to communicate with another small diamond utilizing "quantum entanglement," one ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 96 | with audio podcast

World's first captive breeding of Ozark hellbenders at Saint Louis Zoo

The Saint Louis Zoo's Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation announced on Nov. 30, 2011, that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivity—a first for either of the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Going with the flow: Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Honda shows smarter robot, helps in nuclear crisis (Update, w/ video)

Honda's human-shaped robot can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot and pour a drink. Some of its technology may even be used to help out with clean-up operations at the stricken ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 9


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