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  • NASA, Rice University Develop 'Upper Extremity' Wearable Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Rice University Develop ‘Upper Extremity’ Wearable Tech

    NASA and Rice University have collaborated to build a wearable technology designed to activate the user’s elbow joints and the shoulder with a cable transmission system. The Soft Wearable Upper Extremity Garment, nicknamed “Armstrong,” uses Bowden cable actuators to manipulate synthetic tendons that cross the upper body, NASA said Saturday. The agency’s Wearable Robotics Laboratory has applied the technologies produced […] More

  • IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments

    IBM’s research business and Rice University have developed a robot assistant that uses Watson-based cognitive computing application to help manage care for elderly people. The prototype IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant is designed to measure an individual’s heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate and provide answers to health-related queries as part of a study that aims to improve eldercare, IBM said […] More