Rethink Robotics Gmbh

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The General Hospital Corporation

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Children's Medical Center Corporation

Waleed Ahmed Farahat

Michael Sussman

Kwang Ho Lee

Haruhiko Harry Asada

Robert M White

Roger Dale Kamm

Elizabeth Goodrich

Matthew Murray Williamson

Seok Chung

Peter Swai

Jeffrey D Macklis

Chandrasekhar Kothapalli

Suzanne Tharin

James F Daly, Iii

Johanna Varner

Young Kum Park

Le Thanh Tu Nguyen

Ioannis K Zervantonakis

Choong Kim

Levi B Wood

Compliant manufacturing robot

Provided herein are microfluidic devices that can be used as a 3D bioassay, e.g., for drug screening, personalized medicine, tissue engineering, wound healing, and other applications. The device has a series of channels {e.g., small fluid channels) in a small polymer block wherein one or more of the channels can be filled with a biologically relevant gel, such as collagen, which is held in place by posts. As shown herein, when the device is plated with cells such as endothelial cells, new blood vessels grow in the gel, which is thick enough for the cells to grow in three dimensions. Other channels, e.g., fluid channels, allow drugs or biological material to be exposed to the 3D cell growth. Cells, such as endothelial cells, can be cultured and observed as they grow on the surface of a 3D gel scaffold, where e.g., rates of angiogenesis can be measured, as well as intervascularization and extravascularization of cancerous cells.

Device for high throughput investigations of multi-cellular interactions

Sensors associated with a robot or sub-system thereof (e.g., a series elastic actuator associated with a robot joint) may be monitored for mutual consistency using one or more constraints that relate physical quantities measured by the sensors to each other. The constraints may be based on a physical model of the robot or sub-system.

Monitoring robot sensor consistency

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Newton, MA, United States of America

Waleed Ahmed Farahat