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 ...

Staffordshire University has teamed up with a firm of intellectual property developers to help put a revolutionary robotic concept to commercial use. The groundbreaking Flexibot robotic arm has been ...

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 ...

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,” ...