There are surgeons operating on patients right now who can't feel their instruments. Similarly, there are workers in nuclear facilities around the world using remote manipulator arms to handle ...

Microrobots are miniature robots that are made using nanotechnology. They show promise in several medical applications, such as surgery, targeted drug delivery and biopsy. But because of safety and ...

That's exactly what researchers and surgeons at the University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center and the John and Marcia ...

The robot also scales down the surgeon's movements, measured using a handheld robotic device known as a haptic interface, to the much smaller surgical site within the eye, compensating for hand ...

The operator also can, in effect, "feel" what the robotic arm is touching or holding as it tackles different tasks, through what's known as "haptic force feedback" with the robots' force-sensing ...

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The Haptic Video Player presents video using mobile robots that can be touched as they move over a touch screen. We describe the design of the Haptic Video Player system, and present user studies with ...