Automation and robotics projects
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ELASTOMERS Project
Sheffield Hallam University's ELASTOMERS Project aims at developing innovative composite end effectors for handling lightweight, flexible elastomers
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Dementia and Robots
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have been looking into a robotic solution to help people with advancing dementia to maintain safe exercise regimes
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Viewfinder
The Viewfinder project built an autonomous robotic system to establish ground safety in the event of a fire.
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Engineering project could lead to robotic 'guide dogs'
A new project which brings humans and robots together could help firefighters tackle low visibility and, eventually, provide a robotic alternative to guide dogs for visually-impaired people
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I-Swarm - Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-Manipulation
The I-SWARM project was awarded in December 2003 under the European Union Information Society Technologies (IST) 6th framework programme. It is a follow-up of the MiCRoN project.
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Robotic Evolutionary Self-Programming and Self-Assembling Organisms
The REPLICATOR project started in March 2008 under the European Union's 7th framework programme, in the theme of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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BREATHEASY project
Sheffield Hallam University and the NHS's development of a non-contact, hand-held device, called ‘BREATHEASY’ is for measurement of respiration rates
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Providing accurate ways of monitoring children's respiration
Our client, Sheffield Children's Hospital, identified a need to develop new equipment to monitor the respiration activity of patients. They approached our Materials and Engineering Research Institute for help
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Creating new methods of diagnosing bone disease in children
Sheffield Children's Hospital identified a need to develop new equipment with Sheffield Hallam University to monitor the bone mineral density (BMD) in children less than four years old.
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Human-Robot Interaction
CARR includes years of experience with direct ('in-the-field') human robot interaction as well as assistive robotics and robotic machines and aids in dangerous or low-visibility conditions