Framed and non‐framed robotics in neurosurgery:a ten‐years single‐center experience

Advances in Robotics: The DLR Experience

Key items in the development of a new smart robot generation are explained in light of DLR's recent activities in robotics research. These items are the design of articulated hands, ultra-lightweight links, and joint drive systems with integrated joint torque control, sensory feedback including real-time 3-D vision, learning and skill-transfer, modeling the environment using sensorfusion, and n...

Left Atrial Appendage Closure. Initial SingleCenter Experience with the Watchman Device.

A trial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Its increasing incidence has serious socioeconomic consequences, because of its strong association with ischemic stroke. Patients with AF have an average 5% annual risk of ischemic stroke and a 5-fold higher risk compared to an age-matched population in sinus rhythm. The most important aspect of the treatment of patients with AF i...

Learning Robotics for Youngsters - The RoboParty Experience

Enhance Students' Hands-On Experience with Robotics

This paper presents three different ways to include robotics into the undergraduate program. The three possible ways are robotics classes, AI classes, and programming classes. The author believes that using robots in classrooms can greatly motivate students’ interests in robotics, AI, and more general, computer science. The paper first describes the appropriate hardware and software platforms f...

Speculative Experience based on Internet Technology and Autonomous Robotics

This paper reports our innovative view on the subject which by proposing the framework of an integrated system based on Internet technology and autonomous robotics, which has been designed in order to remove/minimize the fundamental restrictions on time and space. The basic idea is the realization of consistent agents that conduct themselves as mobile agents in the virtual world and as robotic ...