Robot pets We have robot pet dogs and cats, and even a monkey and a horse. They respond to touch/voice commands, carry out movements and vocalise....
An Austrian start-up is using mobile devices and the brain’s inability to separate the real from the imagined to help stroke patients. NR Times meets Rewellio...
An IBM training manual from 1991 reads: “For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible.” But for a...
The brain injury technology University College London has been working on for eight years looks decidedly unremarkable. Barely noticeable in the neonatal skyline of equipment is...
Anna Khan woke up in February 2016 adamant that it was still 2015, but the date was correct – she had ‘lost’ almost two months of...
iReadMore provides computer-based reading therapy using written and spoken words and pictures, and aims to improve word-reading speed and accuracy. It was developed by the Aphasia...
The lightning speed of games technology development in recent decades has unearthed a multitude of opportunities in healthcare Yet for all the headway made since the...
Since a computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, chess has been a continual marker of AI’s progress. In December, the world marvelled at the...
The power of exoskeletons was shown to the world earlier this year when Simon Kindleysides became the first paralysed man to complete the London Marathon on foot....
When a young British woman with learning difficulties announced she was marrying an Egyptian she’d met online, her guardians were unsurprisingly sceptical. The 21-year-old, who’d been...
