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Top award for robotic hand
THE team behind a robotic hand that can automatically change its grasping force using compressed air has won a top award.
The undergraduate students from Virginia Tech College of Engineering's robotics and mechanisms laboratory (RoMeLa) won first place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Student Mechanism and Robot Design competition at the International Design Engineering Technical Conference.
Their winning entry was RAPHaEL 2 (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments), a second-generation version of the hand that previously won an award from the Compressed Air and Gas Institute.
THE team behind a robotic hand that can automatically change its grasping force using compressed air has won a top award.
The undergraduate students from Virginia Tech College of Engineering's robotics and mechanisms laboratory (RoMeLa) won first place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Student Mechanism and Robot Design competition at the International Design Engineering Technical Conference.
Their winning entry was RAPHaEL 2 (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments), a second-generation version of the hand that previously won an award from the Compressed Air and Gas Institute.
Quicker and closer physio for Sheffield
ADULTS requiring physiotherapy will soon be able to receive treatment quicker and closer to their homes thanks to NHS Sheffield's planned changes to the city's musculoskeletal community physiotherapy services.
A number of Sheffield's family doctors, who are part of practice-based commissioning consortia, identified to NHS Sheffield that they felt the service was not giving patients timely enough access to physiotherapy. Patients then confirmed they felt the speed and flexibility of appointments needs to improve, and that they would benefit from being treated closer to home.
ADULTS requiring physiotherapy will soon be able to receive treatment quicker and closer to their homes thanks to NHS Sheffield's planned changes to the city's musculoskeletal community physiotherapy services.
A number of Sheffield's family doctors, who are part of practice-based commissioning consortia, identified to NHS Sheffield that they felt the service was not giving patients timely enough access to physiotherapy. Patients then confirmed they felt the speed and flexibility of appointments needs to improve, and that they would benefit from being treated closer to home.
