Stories Tagged with "robots" from 2009

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2009 - 2 stories
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2009

NEC Foundation of America Awards Grant to NJIT's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for Children with Orthopedic Disabilities

January 23, 2009

NEC Foundation of America has awarded NJIT a $32,000 grant to support the dissemination and use of therapeutic video games to serve children with severe sensory and motor disabilities. >>

Tagged: biomedical engineering, richard foulds, assistive technologies, improvement of bone density in non-ambulatory children, modeling and remediation of spasticity, child-machine interfaces for wheelchair-mounted robots, pre-college exposure to rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation engineering, robot-assisted therapy, graduate education in rehabilitation engineering, nec foundation of america, nec financial services llc, herschel salan, hands-up video game software, us department of education’s national institute on disability and rehabilitation research, rehabilitation engineering research center on technology for children with orthopedic disabilities, neuro-plasticity, therapeutic video games

Science Olympiad for Brainy Teens Held Tomorrow at NJIT

January 14, 2009

Building a robot, busting a crime and launching two rubber-powered model monoplanes number among the dozen-plus exciting opportunities at tomorrow’s annual Science Olympiad at NJIT. >>

Tagged: high school, pre-college, science, competition, john carpinelli, science olympiad, robots, new jersey, experiments, teenager