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HAL(Hybrid Assistive Limb) from Cyberdine HAL 5 or Hybrid Assistive Limb 5 is a robot suit (aka artificial powered exoskeleton) developed by Yoshiyuki Sankai who is the professor of Tsukuba University of Japan. HAL 5 is currently capable of allowing the operator to lift and carry nearly twice as much weight as they could lift and carry unaided Tags: Cyborg Robot |
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Assistive Technology People in Norfolk with social or healthcare needs are benefiting from the provision of assistive technology equipment designed to help them to live more independently. Watch the film to find out more. For all customer enquiries please call Norfolk County Council on 0844 800 8020. Tags: Assistive Technology Norfolk County Council 2007 |
User: barnsleyat |
Ellen - Using Assistive Technology Ellen uses Assistive Technology to go about her day to day life - both at home and in college. Ellen has Cerebral Palsy and has difficulty controlling her body - she is able to access her Assistive Technology using two head switches. Through these head switches, Ellen is able to drive her powered chair, communicate with people, access the computer and internet and control her TV and household equipment. Tags: Communication Aid Environmental Control Integrated Wheelchair Assistive Technology Disability |
User: googletechtalks |
Practical Applications of Natural Language Processing in Assistive Technology Google Tech Talks May, 15 2008 ABSTRACT Ken Ingham, Ph.D. will describe the architecture and motivation behind the development of Amazability, Inc.'s Adept1 product. The Adept1 performs natural language analysis and interprets spoken words and phrases or typed input. It accepts and interprets verbal commands and responds with high quality speech. The Adept1 is equipped with voice recognition and text-to-speech output that dynamically adapts multilingual spoken output to context. The Adept1 offers such applications as word processing, email, address book, web browsing, and access to an online library of thousands of books. These applications along with others have been developed from the ground up to work with speech and have a common command language throughout. They can be employed using ordinary speech or typed words and sentences. Thus the product represents a foundation for implementing practical natural language transaction processing where simple English phrases and sentences are interpreted to command a sequence of complex operations. While the Company's founders are offering a vehicle that can be used as a full programmer's workstation, the operating system is hidden with all applications designed to be used by person's with minimal or no technical background. The Adept1 will be demonstrated and a roadmap for future applications will be given. This talk will be taped. Speaker: Ken Ingham, Ph.D. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
User: pacificvoices |
FM Assistive Listening Device Professor Megan Conway demonstrates how she uses an FM Assistive Listening Device to help her hearing. Tags: listening device FM system hearing impaired hard-of-hearing |
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Assistive Vision Technology for the Blind: Recognizing... Google Tech Talks September 5, 2006 Serge Belongie Credits: Speaker:Serge Belongie Tags: google howto assistive vision technology |
User: barnsleyat |
Simon - Assistive Technology Case Study An interview with Simon who uses a range of Assistive Technology to allow him to have control over some essential aspects of his life. This video shows Simon using his: - communication aid to talk - environmental control to control his household equipment - powered wheelchair, using a specialised control - computer, using a scanning interface - integrated system - using two head switches to access all of this equipment See www.barnsleyrd.nhs.uk for more information (click on the 'Assistive Technology Team'). Tags: Communication Aid Environmental Control Integrated Wheelchair Assistive Technology Disability |
User: daddyleer |
caregiver: assistive technology / PATF / Multiple Sclerosis http://caregivinglyyours.com/ ... Caregiving and living with Multiple Sclerosis as a family. Wheelchair accessible van financing help Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation Press Conference Sept 26, 2006 PATF http://www.patf.us/ Patti Leer, spouse caregiver Patrick Leer Tags: caregiving Multiple Sclerosis accessibility PATF assistive technology wheelchair van spouse caregiver |
User: itutelecommunication |
WTISD 2008: Demonstration of assistive technology 15 May 2008 - At the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Ceremony in Cairo, Egypt, Microsoft and QualiLife (CEO Claudio Giugliemma) combined their resources to demonstrate assistive technology that can be used in combination with a personal computer or with a mobile phone to make it accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. Mr Albergati Diamante showed how despite severe disabilities he could navigate through a series of computer applications. Tags: ITU UN UIT telecommunication ICT information society disabilities accessibility microsoft qualilife assistive technology |
User: centralvalleyat |
Assistive Technology Presentation A video description of Assistive Technology. Tags: Assistive Technology |
User: rscsoutheast |
TechDis Box of Assistive Technology showcase Artie Vossel-Newman and Adam Blackwood from the RSC Southeast give an overview of selected items from the TechDis Box of Assistive Technology. Tags: ILT e-learning disability assistive technology RSC Southeast TechDis JISC |
User: pacificvoices |
Kelly Roberts introduces Assistive Technology (AT) Kelly Roberts introduces the Assistive Technology component of Teaching All Students, Reaching All Learners modules. Tags: Kelly Roberts Assistive Technology AT CDS UH Manoa |
User: GoodShepherdAT |
Assistive and Adaptive Technology Store This is Rehability, an optimal living store located in Allentown PA, featuring over 3,500 different assistive and adaptive technology products hand picked by therapists and disabled individuals. Visit us on the web at www.rehabilitystores.com Tags: assistive adaptive technology blind rehability wheelchair aged old handicapped devices |
User: RoyalSteele |
PATF Video of Assistive Technology A loan recipient discusses the importance of the assistive technology he purchased through the Mini-Loan / Mini-Grant program of the Pennsyl A loan recipient the importance of the assistive technology he purchased through the Mini-Loan / Mini-Grant program of the Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF). Tags: Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF) word prediction disability loans alternative financing |
User: remembermyheart |
Curb Cuts Episode #1 ::: Hands-free Computer Access "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #1 deals with hands-free computer access options, with particular attention paid to an eyegaze system, an infrared head-pointing device, and a mouth-operated joystick. Cassandra Province shares her personal experience of using an eyegaze computer in her daily life. Tags: assistive technology disability hands-free computer access Eyegaze Quadjoy HeadMouse infrared headpointer gadget electronics mechanics |
User: remembermyheart |
Curb Cuts Episode #2 ::: Blind AT "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #2 deals with assistive technology for individuals who are blind. Examples include screen reader software like JAWS, a voice-operated PDA, and various talking devices. Gail Kennedy and Greg Benavidez highlight some of the ways in which assistive technology enables them to live as independently as possible. For more information about this episode, please visit our website: http://www.ccatc.org/curbcuts.htm Tags: assistive technology disability blind screen reader JAWS |
User: remembermyheart |
Curb Cuts Episode #3 ::: Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing AT "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #3 deals with assistive technology for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Examples include alerting devices for the home, assistive listening devices, and adapted telephones. Beth Houston highlights some of the technology she uses to function independently and safely in her own home. For more information about this episode, please visit our website: http://www.ccatc.org/curbcuts.htm Tags: assistive technology disability deaf hard-of-hearing alerting devices listening adapted telephone |
User: remembermyheart |
Curb Cuts Episode #4 ::: Vehicle Modifications "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #4 deals with vehicle modifications that enable people with disabilities to drive or ride independently and safely. Join us on a tour of Adaptive Driving Systems, a business that specializes in vehicle modifications. Fernando Ramirez takes viewers on a ride in his adapted van. For more information about this episode, please visit our website: http://www.ccatc.org/curbcuts.htm Tags: assistive technology disability vehicle modifications adaptive driving wheelchair gadget mechanics diy |
User: remembermyheart |
Curb Cuts Episode #6 ::: Adaptive Recreation "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #6 highlights adaptive recreation opportunities available for people with disabilities living on the Central Coast. Curb Cuts goes kayaking with the Cal Poly Adapted Paddle Program in Morro Bay and cycling with the Cal Poly EyeCycle program along the beautiful backroads of San Luis Obispo. Learn about the SoloQuad kayak, a unique project under development that will enable a person with high-level quadriplegia to operate a kayak independently by way of a hand-operated or sip-and-puff joystick. For more information about this episode, please visit our website: http://www.ccatc.org/curbcuts.htm Tags: assistive technology disability adaptive recreation kayaking beach wheelchair cycling quadriplegia environment mechanics gadget |
User: remembermyheart |
Curb Cuts Episode #5 ::: AT for Low Vision "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #5 deals with assistive technology for individuals with low vision. Brianna Barnett, Dorothy Erinakes, and Thomas Athanasian share how they use technology such as CCTVs and ZoomText screen magnification software to function as independently as possible at home, school, and work. For more information about this episode, please visit our website: http://www.ccatc.org/curbcuts.htm Tags: assistive technology disability low vision screen magnifier ZoomText CCTV macular degeneration gadget electronics mechanics |
User: AdamWingAbleNet |
Josh's Story An inspiring story of a six-year-old student with autism whose school experience is dramatically improved after being introduced to assistive technology. Tags: Autism AAC Communication Assistive Technology Disability AbleNet |
User: eac0528ecu |
Computer Assisted Visual Perception Training Module This is a kiosk developed to instruct participants on how to use the Computer Assisted Visual Perception Training module, created by Dr. Leonard Trujillo, East Carolina University (*animations were lost in this posting) Tags: Computer Assisted Visual Perception Training Assistive Technology Occupational Therapy |
User: StrayActingChild |
ROBOT child : "Repliee" the Cyber-Tot ! The Japanese-developed Repliee R-1 is based on a real Japanese five-year-old... A robot that looks and moves eerily like a human child is set to go into mass production. Like a creature out of Steven Spielberg's dark movie AI: Artificial Intelligence, the cyber girl, known as Repliee R-1, has flexible silicon skin, eyes that blink and hair in pigtails. Developed by a Japanese university, the Repliee R-1 is the latest in a series of robot suits, or Hybrid Assistive Limb technology, each with more lifelike looks, feel and movement. Modelled on a real five-year-old Japanese girl, the robot suit has 50 sensors and a series of motors to allow it to move more realistically than any android yet built. Its inventors hope the machine will help elderly and disabled people move better. Robotics company Cyberdyne Inc plans to start producing the technology on a mass scale as early as this week, according to reports. http://www.theage.com.au/world/cybertot-fleshes-out-future-of-robotics-20081008-4wgy.html [ OCTOBER 8, 2008 ] ---------------------------------------- A life-like robot created to look like a five-year-old girl has been unveiled by scientists in Japan... The robogirl, known as Repliee R-1, has flexible silicone skin and contains dozens of sensors and motors, allowing it to move and interact with its surroundings like a human. The robot even has eyes that blink and pig tails, creating a spooky effect has led to comparisons with the boy robot David in Steven Spielberg's 2001 science-fiction movie AI: Artificial Intelligence. The team at Osaka University's robotics department behind Repliee R-1 claim it is the most realistic robot suit ever created. It has been designed to do basic tasks for the elderly and disabled, such as fetching objects. The scientists hope that its life-like features will put people at their ease, and help them get over their reluctance to interact with a robot. Cyberdyne, a robotics firm, hopes to start mass producing the models within days, according to reports. An earlier version of the robot - Repliee Q1 was unveiled by scientists in 2005, but was criticised for appearing to have "spasms" because of technical glitches. It was modeled on a young Japanese woman, complete with trouser suit. At the time Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University predicted that robots would soon be so life-like that they could fool humans into thinking they were real. "An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said. "More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her. Consciously, it is easy to see that she is an android, but unconsciously, we react to the android as if she were a woman." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3157003/Robot-that-looks-like-young-girl-unveiled.html [ OCTOBER 8, 2008 ] Tags: robot robots girl child children woman women female invention inventions Japan Osaka University Japanese artificial model electric electronic electronics intelligence Cyberdyne Repliee R-1 android science computer robotic cyber-tot robotics cybertot cyber tot |
User: proteine2000 |
Hal aiuta a camminare Giappone: Hal aiuta a camminare Dall'11 ottobre commercializzato un «abito» robotizzato per la deambulazione degli invalidi L'esoscheletro Hal (Ap) MILANO - Questa volta la promessa di tornare a camminare grazie a un esoscheletro meccanico si chiama Hal e arriva dallo scienziato nipponico Yoshiyuki Sankai, dell'Università di Tsukuba. A pochi mesi dalla notizia di Re-Walk (nome decisamente esplicativo), prodotto dall'azienda israeliana Argo Medical Technologies, un'altra armatura elettronica restituisce la speranza del movimento a molte persone. Diversamente da Re-Walk però, che percepisce i movimenti del busto su cui si basa la camminata e che è ancora solo un prototipo, il robot di Sankai è già in vendita (anzi, in affitto) e dialoga direttamente con il cervello di chi lo indossa. VESTITO BIONICO Dopo quasi quattordici anni di laboratorio l'esoscheletro è pronto a fare il proprio compito. Hal (acronimo di hybrid assistive limb), probabile elogio al supercomputer che guidava l'astronave Discovery di 2001: Odissea nello spazio, viene dopo Hal-3, Hal-5 e altri tentativi che via via hanno consentito di perfezionare al massimo questa sorta di vestito bionico. L'armatura viene fissata alla vita e agli arti (inferiori e superiori) e permette di raccogliere e tradurre gli stimoli elettrici cerebrali. Distribuito dall'azienda Cyberdyne, ha una batteria e un circuito di sensori, verrà lanciato l'11 ottobre e potrà essere affittato al prezzo mensile di 2.200 dollari (1.500 per la versione monogamba). Oltre a permettere la deambulazione, l'esoscheletro consente anche di moltiplicare la forza. È disponibile in tre taglie differenti: large, medium e small. STILE ROBOCOP Certo lo stile è molto robocop e il prezzo, ancorché sceso sensibilmente rispetto alla prima versione di Hal, è comunque alto. Ma inutile dire che il sogno di poter tornare a camminare val bene il sacrificio di indossare un'armatura robotica. Hal è anche il nome del regista Hal Ashby che nel 1978 ha diretto il film Tornando a casa, in cui Jane Fonda si innamora di Jon Voight, reduce del Vietnam rimasto sulla sedia a rotelle. Del tutto casualmente il regista che diresse una delle pellicole più belle e profonde sul tema della paraplegia (e degli orrori bellici) si chiamava proprio come questo strano tutore robotico. Un'innovazione realmente fredda di tecnologia dal Giappone. Un esoscheletro robot, quel percepisce gli stimoli neurali trasmessi di conseguenza dal cervello ai muscoli ed agli atti. Il risultato? Un aumento robot, quello permette che alziate fino a 10 volte il peso normale. Può essere realmente utile sui cantieri! Tags: esoscheletro protesi camminare invalidi deambulazione hal robotizzato meccanico Re Walk Argo Medical Techn |
User: yellowpages |
Morning Pointe Of Chattanooga Assisted Living Kristal Grady, Executive Director of Morning Pointe of Chattanooga Assisted Living, talks about the many services for assisted living offered by their facility. They have restaurant-style dining, apartment-style living surrounded by beautiful landscaping, including a variety of socializing activities. They have professional nurses on staff, and they also specialize in Alzheimer's care. Visit us http://www.yellowpages.com/info-BS121085240/Morning-Pointe-Of-Chattanooga-Assisted-Living Tags: video yellopages advertise |