Robear: the cute bear-shaped nursing robot who’ll look after you when you get old
1 March 2015 • Staff
Japanese robot can lift patients from beds into wheelchairs or help them to stand up, promising ‘powerful yet gentle care’ for the elderly
Tag: Health
Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
From sculpture to scalpel: Barbara Hepworth’s surgical sketches
25 October 2012 • Mark Westall
At the end of the 1940s, finding marble in short supply, sculptor Barbara Hepworth took her sketchpad into hospitals. The results are full of drama and passion