Turns out the Japanese don't have a monopoly on elderly-helping robots. Scientists at Staffordshire University's Center for Rehabilitation Robotics in the UK (a whole research center dedicated to ...

In a story about the ‘Flexibot’, a robot designed by Staffordshire University s Center for Rehabilitation Robotics to assist the elderly, Engadget’s Pete Rojas asked if anyone had spotted a picture of ...

"A robot that looks and moves like a caterpillar to help the disabled in the home was unveiled in Britain on Thursday," reports Reuters. "The Flexibot, which can clamp itself to specific points on the ...

A prototype disembodied robotic arm designed to clamber around the home was unveiled in the UK on Thursday. The metre long arm, called Flexibot, is capable of docking to a wheelchair or a wall and can ...

Flexibot is a robotic arm from Staffordshire University which can walk on its own, end-over-end, along a row of docking stations. “The robot is a symmetrical arm with five degrees of freedom,” ...