By Ida Strom Seljeseth In this video from Health 2.0 Goes to Washingston on June 7, 2010, founders of Health 2.0 Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt review the day. They talked about what really stood out for them and how...
By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference on June 7, 2010 we captured this interview with Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States.
By Matthew Holt This is the technology showcase of communities and consumer tools from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7, 2010, It includes Greg Fitzgerald from HealthCentral, Howard Steinberg from dLife, representing communities, with Ellen Badinelli from ScanAvert...
Cornell's 4-legged bipedal robot named Ranger holds the world record for non-stop distance walked by an untethered legged robot. Ranger walked for 14.3 miles without taking a break. Boston Dynamic's BigDog held the previous record of 12.8 miles.
It took 65,185 steps for Cornell's 4-legged bipedal robot to walk 108.5 laps on Barton Hall's 1/8-mile indoor track, setting a new world record for non-stop distance walked by an untethered legged robot - more than a half a marathon. The previous legged robot distance record was 12.8 miles, held by BigDog, Boston Dynamics' robust and capable quadraped robot. Ranger, a robot more specialized for distance than BigDog, beat that record by 1.5 miles, walking 14.3 miles on a single charge of its batteries without being touched by a human. Ranger took about 20,000 steps, over three miles, for each penny worth of electricity it used. Ranger was steered with a model-plane remote control. Commands from the remote control twist the inner pair of legs. The walking was entirely controlled by the 6 onboard microprocessors.
Here is a video of Cornell's Ranger robot in action. Fatemeh Hasaneini, the 6 year old daughter of one of the students who worked on the Robot, is the Ranger's walking companion. Another video of the Ranger in action can be seen here. Take a look:
By JOHN MORROW Earlier this month USNews and World Report released their annual list of America’s Best Hospitals. This list is terribly misleading and is a disservice to the readers of that magazine, in my opinion. The fine print is...
Dr. Jennifer Ashton talks about the Seattle Longitudinal Study, a research group that has been testing six thousand people every seven years since 1956. The studies have found that many people perform better on cognitive tests in their forties and fifties than they did when they were in their twenties. The tests found people in there 40s and 50s ranked higher in scores on deductive reasoning, spatial orientation skills, verbal memory and problem solving. However, people with younger brains did better on mental skill tests, such as rapid number computation and how fast you can press a button when prompted. Take a look:
By LYGEIA RICCIARDI Last week I heard uber marketer Seth Godin speak about the power of fear. Fear is one of the strongest human emotions, based in the core of our brain--the “lizard brain” that evolved prior to our higher...
By Ida Strom Seljeseth In this brief interview at the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference June 10, 2010 Executive Chairman of Araxis Health, Patrick Soon-Shiong, talks about the Health Transformation Institute.
Researchers at Stanford Unviersity created Stickybot, a robot with sticky feet that was inspired by geckos. Stickybot is a climbing machine that can climb straight up walls. The feet contain rubber bads made up of microscopic hairs. Each legs is powered by four mini motors and the tail acts as an anchor to balance Stickybot. The research was funded partially by the Department of Defense. You can read more about Stickybot here and here. Take a look:
By ROGER COLLIER One thing about a democracy, everyone is entitled to publish their predictions about the future, and on the costs (or savings) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act over the 2010-2019 decade, there are enough to...
