IEEE Pulse, a magazine put out by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, wrote a great article detailing the past, present and future of the Raven surgical robot!
Announcements
Applied Dexterity and BluHaptics featured in Puget Sound Business Journal
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Fredrik Ryden, BRL Postdoc and BluHaptics VP of Engineering, describes BluHaptics technology to Washington Governor Jay Inslee
The Puget Sound Business Journal listed BRL spinoffs BluHaptics and Applied Dexterity as two of five UW startups to watch this year!
Read their full article here
Smart Emergency Response System featured in Huffington Post
A Huffington Post article published today overviews the recent Smart America Challenge that the BRL participated in. The UW BioRobotics lab worked with a team of researchers and engineers from multiple institutions to demonstrate a new approach to disaster response. Check out the full article here
This video was produced and posted by NSF, check out their news release here
BRL attends Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century
We presented two papers at the 2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century! The conference was a discussion about the father of cybernetics and his contributions to technology and society. The papers presented were:
Congratulations BRL Graduates!
Congratulations to Charlie, Fredrik, Sina, Hawkeye and Paul!
Thank you Tim O’Neill for the great photo!
Infinity Box brings BCI security to the stage
Five researchers affiliated with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, including our very own Howard Chizeck, teamed up with local Seattle playwrights to create a series of short plays exploring new advancements in neural engineering. While collaborating with Howard, Roger Tang wrote “Truth and Lies” to explore themes present in our work into BCI privacy concerns. The series of short plays will be shown June 13-15 at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre in Seattle. More at InfinityBox.org
Smart Emergency Response System Showcase Videos
Our partners in the Smart America Challenge created these video to showcase the technologies we are bringing together to improve disaster response!
Best Paper at IEEE Ethics 2014!
BRL Researchers Tamara Bonaci and Howard Chizeck along with Ryan Calo of the UW School of Law received the best paper award at the recent IEEE Ethics 2014 Conference for their paper titled: “App Stores for the Brain: Privacy & Security in Brain-Computer Interfaces” Link to IEEE Ethics 2014 Awards