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Robotic transanal surgery: perspectives for application

2020

Transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) is a surgical technique which allows the local excision of rectal benign tumors and early stage cancers measuring up to 4 cm and lying within 6-8 cm from the anal verge. It is performed by means of a disposable transanal platform and conventional laparoscopic instruments, proving to be effective and easily available. Hence, TAMIS soon became a valid alternative to other transanal resective procedures, especially transanal endoscopic microsurgery, and rapidly spread. Moreover, soon after its introduction, TAMIS started to be performed also using robotic technologies, but no clear advantages were found to date. This review is intended to provide a …

Fisioterapia elettromiograficamente assistita nella sindrome di Pierre Robin

2008

Sindrome di pierre-robin trattata con fisioterapia elettromiograficamente assistita: case report

2009

Pierre Robin syndrome is characterized by the triad: micrognathia, cleft palate and glossoptosis. This syndrome, which often undermines several organs and systems, is treated with a multidisciplinary approach that involves several specialists. The AA. present a case of Pierre Robin syndrome in neuromuscular rehabilitation by physiotherapy EMG-assisted. PMID:19445280[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Chamberlin, Edward Hastings

2016

The entry describes the life and analytical contributions of the US economist Edward Chamberlin (1899 -1967). It reconstructs the development of Chamberlin's thought on the issue of monopolistic competition and compares it with the Economics of Imperfect Competition by Joan Robinson.

A Lightweight Software Architecture for Robot Navigation and Visual Logging through Environmental Landmarks Recognition

2006

A robot architecture with real-time performance in navigation tasks is presented. The system architecture is multi-threaded with shared memory and fast message passing through static signalling. In this paper, we focused on the reactive layer components and its straightforward implementation. The proposed architecture is described with reference to an experimental setup, in which the robot task is visual logging of environmental landmarks detected on the basis of sensor readings. Our experimental results show how the robot is able to identify, make snapshots and log a set of landmarks by matching 2D geometric patterns.

Sichelgaita di Salerno, principessa longobarda, nei «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi» di Guglielmo il Pugliese

2020

L’articolo è dedicato alla raffigurazione della principessa longobarda Sichelgaita di Salerno, seconda moglie di Roberto il Guiscardo, nei «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi» di Guglielmo il Pugliese, l’unico poema epico-storico dei secc. XI-XII che tratti della conquista normanna dell’Italia meridionale. In questa nota, Sichelgaita viene presentata attraverso il suo profilo storico e biografico e alla luce della disamina di alcuni passi del poema (in particolare, II 416-443). This paper is devoted to the figure of Robert Guiscard’s second wife, the Lombard princess Sichelgaita of Salerno, in William of Puglia’s «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi», the only epic-historical poem of XIth-XIIth centuries that deals…

Autonomous maritime ecosystem : digital concepts and business case : results from the JYU TJTSM54 course on advanced topics on systems development

2019

INVESTIGATING PERCEPTUAL AND BIOLOGICAL FEEDBACKS IN HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION

The Human Robot Interaction (HRI) is a new discipline that has attracted more attention in the last years due to the increasing presence of robots in people’s everyday life. It is a field of study dedicated to understanding, designing, and evaluating robotic systems for use by or with humans. Interaction, by definition, requires communication between robots and humans. A social robot is an autonomous or semi-autonomous robot capable of interacting and communicating with humans or other autonomous physical agents following social behaviours and rules related to its specific role. In order to interact effectively with the human being, a robot must be able to decode the complex system of human…

Introduction: Situating the Human in Social Robots

2015

Traditionally the social has been considered as a characteristic of human beings, not of inanimate machines. At the same time, each technological device can be considered social born out of a complex process of invention, implementation, distribution and domestication by users (Hirsch and Silverstone 2004; Lasen 2013). Since recent technical developments have made possible rather detailed technical mimicking of human beings and their social features, and incorporating them in silicon chips, there is a pronounced need to understand to what extent the humanness can be implanted in social robots. This is also an occasion to think over and discuss what the human is when considered in this conte…

Brain Controlled Architecture for Human-Human Interaction Mediated by a Humanoid Robot

2017

This paper presents an Assistive social robots architecture designed for social interaction with humans, mediated by a humanoid robot. The architecture has been designed for being used by people with severe paralysis and the architecture has been tested by a user affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a locked-in state. The system allows the patient to communicate with the stakeholders using a Brain Controlled Interface, based on Evoked Response Potentials (ERP), to express needing, feelings or writing phases. Stakeholders visualize messages sent by the patient on a GUI and use a tele operated humanoid robot as an avatar of them to extend their physical presence to interact with…