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Robots to help rehabilitation

Posted on February 27, 2022

Ben Gurion University’s 46th Webinar Wednesday featured BGU Professor Shelly Levy-Tzedek, who discussed how robots can help in the process of rehabilitation. This includes physical assistance (e.g., post-stroke, Parkinson’s, or aging) and social assistance. The video also stars Pepper the … Continue reading →

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Fast crawling and hovering robot

Posted on November 8, 2020

Scientists at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have built some very clever robots (see here previously). The latest was inspired by cockroaches and lizards and can move super-fast over difficult terrain and water. It has many potential agricultural, search and rescue … Continue reading →

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A multi-purpose robotic arm

Posted on November 10, 2019

On automated production lines, manufacturers use a different robotic arm for each stage of the process. Not anymore – scientists at Ben Gurion University have developed and patented a sophisticated algorithm that enables the design of one robotic arm that … Continue reading →

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Rescue robot can now fly

Posted on May 26, 2019

I reported previously (2nd Sep) that Ben Gurion University engineers had built RSTAR – a highly maneuverable search and rescue robot. Just months later, they have developed it into FSTAR – a robot that can transform from driving on land … Continue reading →

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Bio-inspired robots

Posted on April 7, 2019

Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have created tiny robots that could soon become part of medical procedures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwNHSh_fo0o

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No stopping this robot

Posted on September 2, 2018

Ben Gurion University engineers Dr David Zarrouk and Liran Yehezkel have developed RSTAR (Rising Star) – a new highly maneuverable search and rescue robot. It can creep, crawl and climb over rough or soft terrain without getting stuck; through tight … Continue reading →

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Robot pepper picker

Posted on August 12, 2018

Ben Gurion University scientists are part of the team that built the Sweeper robot pepper picker together with other international companies as part of a European Horizon 2020 funded project. The BGU team developed the fruit detection and maturity classification … Continue reading →

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A robot that rehabilitates patients

Posted on May 21, 2018

Scientists at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have designed a robotic arm that plays tic-tac-toe. Patients can play against the robot to exercise upper limbs following surgery or strokes. Patients were more motivated to compete against the robot than against computer-controlled lights. … Continue reading →

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A simple robot to pick fruit and more

Posted on April 30, 2018

Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have developed a low cost, low energy robot resembling a snake. It has applications from picking fruit to search and rescue to repairing satellites. https://www.israel21c.org/new-snake-robot-could-pick-fruit-or-fix-satellites/ https://www.youtube.com/embed/HEHuoeMLV_o?rel=0

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Robots for agriculture

Posted on April 15, 2018

Projects at the Ben Gurion University include artificial bees to pollinate flowers and robots to spray and to harvest crops. Their aim is to compensate for the shortage of bees and the lack of workers able to do hard, monotonous … Continue reading →

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