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Tag Archives: robotics
Stroke Awareness Month: Technology for Recovery
For Stroke Awareness Month, we are exploring some of the recent NIDILRR-funded projects focusing on technology to support recovery and rehabilitation from stroke. Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, assistive technology, measurement, NIDILRR Projects, orthotics, robotics, stroke, technology, telerehabilitation
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What is robotics and how can it help or support people with disabilities?
According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, robotics is the “design, construction, and use of machines (robots) to perform tasks done traditionally by human beings.” Robots may be used in such industries as automobile manufacture to perform simple repetitive tasks, and in … Continue reading
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month – Checking In with the NIDILRR SCI Projects
For National SCI Awareness Month, we check in with the latest NIDILRR-funded centers and projects conducting research and development to support independence across the life span. Continue reading
Quick Looks: Research and Development to Support People with Limb Loss/Limb Difference
April is Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month. According to the Amputee Coalition, more than 2 million Americans are living with limb loss or limb difference, and about 28 million are at risk for amputation surgeries in any year … Continue reading
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Tagged amputation, limb loss, pressure injuries, prosthetics, robotics
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21st Century Innovation – A Quick Look at High Tech Research from the NIDILRR Community
Last week’s Consumer Electronics Show featured cutting-edge technology for home, work, health, entertainment, transportation, and so much more. Amid the concept cars and homes of the future was technology that is already changing lives. Technologies like virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomous vehicles, brain computer interface, robotics, virtual reality
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for January 2018
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: How are robots used in rehabilitation? This edition of Answered Questions includes items that discuss wearable robots to aid … Continue reading
Cool Tech on Cold Days: CES ’17
Here in DC, we’re bundled up against some seriously arctic temperatures. But this chill is nothing compared to the level of COOL on exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show this past weekend in Las Vegas. Developers showed off everything from … Continue reading
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Tagged Apps, assistive technology, CES '17, cool technology, exoskeleton, robotics, smart homes, smartphones, tablets, virtual reality, wireless technology
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Ain’t It Cool?
It may be 90 degrees outside but in here we’re thinking cool: Cool technology from the NIDILRR community? We’re fortunate to be a pert of a community that works on some of the latest technology supporting the independence and participation … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Computing, robotics, technology, technology for access and function, telerehabilitation
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 