NIH grant $4.4M infusion for affordable, accessible everyday healthcare machines From: MassDevice - 09/19/2012 The National Institutes of Health grant $4.4 million in funding for affordable robots that can help healthcare and life sciences teams with daily tasks, such as designing prosthetics and diagnosing and treating disease. NIH selected 6 projects, the funding for which will be awarded over the course of the next 4 years, given budget availability, according to the agency: Brain Machine Interface (BMI) Control of a Therapeutic Exoskeleto Personal Pill-Sized Soft Medical Robots for the Gastrointestinal Tract Control of Powered Segmented Legs for Humanoids and Rehabilitation Robotics High Performance Robotic Below-Knee Prostheses Advanced Biophotonics for Image-guided Robotic Surgery Parallel, Independent Control of Microrobots for Microassembly of Tissues Read the entire article at: https://www.massdevice.com/news/robots-feds-grant-44m-infusion-affordable-accessible-everyday-healthcare-machines Links: NIH http://www.nih.gov NIH announces national robotics initiative awardees http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2012/nibib-18.htm