A group of Japanese companies is developing a suitcase-shaped robot that uses AI to help blind and visually impaired people to travel independently.
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Japanese Doctor Develops New Technology for the Blind
Chieko Asakawa, a Japanese doctor and inventor, is developing a new technology that will aid visually impaired individuals. Her passion for advancing technology for the visually impaired started when Asakawa had a swimming pool accident when she was 14 which caused her blindness. She is now working with other companies to improve the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help people live a normal life.
ASU Team Wins Competition with Robot Seeing Guide Dog
A team of students at Arizona State University’s Fulton School of Engineering recently took “First Prize” at a competition in China, hosted by Intel.
Robot Operates On A Human Eye for the First Time
In 2016, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences launched a clinical trial to test the PRECEYES Surgical System, a robot designed to perform surgery on the retina, the surface at the back of the eye.
RUDY The Robot Is Now Available To Care For Seniors
Seniors now have a possible alternative to in-person caretakers, thanks to a home healthcare startup based in Fairfax that recently introduced Rudy, the first senior care robot commercially available in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
LG’s Robot Lawn Mower Works with Alexa and Google Assistant
At the IFA consumer electronics trade show, LG showed off a robot lawn mower that they first announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. The robot can be controlled with your voice via the Amazon Alexa or Google voice assistant. You need to setup a perimeter wire around your lawn, so that the mower will know where to stop mowing. But after that, everything is easy. The mower also comes equipped with GPS, so if it is stolen, you will be able to track it down. This is important sense the robot needs to be left outside. Soon you be able to say, “Alexa, mow my lawn.”
Robot Performs First Ever Operation Inside a Human Eye
At the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in Baltimore, Maryland, researchers have presented the results of a study using remotely operated robots to perform eye operations. These robots were able to produce better results than traditional methods.
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