Cue robots are small wheeled robots with sensors and controls which can be programmed from mobile phones. The aim is to teach STEM methodologies in a fun interactive manner to kids from 8 years old. You can choose from 4 unique avatars to customize Cue with different personalities. So far these robots have been introduced to 12,000 elementary schools in the US. https://www.makewonder.com/cue_the_cleverbot
The FDA has recently cleared Senhance, a robotically assisted surgical device for use in minimally invasive surgeries. Senhance enhances surgeons? capabilities through a screen with a 3D HD view of the surgical field, where they remotely control three separate arms, each equipped with surgical instruments. Senhance?s camera can follow their eye movements and show what they'd be looking at if they were manually performing the surgery on screen. The machine's controllers can also make surgeons feel the stiffness of the tissue they're operating on. https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/15/fda-approves-senhance-robotic-surgical-assistant/
US law requires employers to provide nursing mothers with a ?reasonable break time? and a place to express milk, but those requirements do not extend to business travel. Milk Stork is a startup that allows a traveling mother to ship her milk to her baby at home with a cooler that arrives in her hotel room as a postpaid package. She can send up to 72 ounces per day with the materials provided, and packages are shipped overnight anywhere in the United States. This service is making it more possible for women to continue their careers while having children. www.milkstork.com
This month, a special kind of apple slice will go on sale at select US supermarkets and, thanks to CSIRO research, these apples won't turn brown when they're cut, bitten, or bruised. Arctic apples have been developed by an innovative Canadian biotech company and their first product will be bags of fresh non-browning Arctic Golden apple slices. While there are other sliced apple products already on the market, these are often coated with vitamin C and calcium to prevent browning and to preserve crispness, and this can change their taste.
https://blog.csiro.au/apples-no-longer-cruising-for-a-bruising/
In a greenhouse in Belgium, a small robot moves through rows of strawberries growing on trays suspended above the ground, using machine vision to locate ripe, flawless berries, then reaching up with a 3D-printed hand to gently pluck each berry and place it in a basket for sale. If it feels that a berry isn?t ready for harvest, the robot estimates the date it will be ready for it to return and pick it. It?s a test of a system that Octinion, the R&D company building the robot, believes could replace traditional strawberry farming and harvesting. https://www.fastcompany.com/40473583/this-strawberry-picking-robot-gently-picks-the-ripest-berries-with-its-robo-hand?
