medical-robotics

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design and a complex sensor system to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure.

In what's been called "a medical breakthrough on the verge of happening," scientists have built a soft robot with the capacity to carry different types of drugs through the body – in a device the size of a grain of rice, steered by magnetic fields.

Researchers have developed an ultrasensitive, human-like robotic ‘finger’ capable of safely performing routine physical examinations like a medical doctor would. They say the ‘robodoctor’ could be seen in medical clinics soon.