The scheme was developed by Middlesbrough Council and Riba (the Royal Institute of British Architects).
Third seed Tomas Berdych moved into the third round, with the Czech defeating Spain's Pere Riba 7-5 6-1.
RTC's new robot, named RIBA-II, overcomes these limitations with added power and functionality.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
Riba chief executive Harry Rich said new houses were causing some people to endure a lower quality of life.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) applauds the government's good intentions on housing but complains that policies are too weak.
Riba said he had been dismissed with immediate effect for gross misconduct.
In medieval Latin, the term usuria was used interchangeably for interest and excessive interest, much like the Arabic word riba is used today.
RIBA-II accomplishes this task using newly-developed Smart Rubber sensors (Table 1, Figure 2, 3), the first capacitance-type tactile sensors made entirely of rubber.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
These may sound trivial amounts but 4 sq m is equivalent to having a sofa and small computer table in your house, Riba argues.
Riba found the average three-bedroom home is 88 sq m (947 sq ft), which is 8 sq m (86 sq ft) short of the recommended minimum.
Bill Gething, an advisor to the RIBA, says the government's new so-called sustainable communities are often traditional car-led developments that fail to meet the government's rhetoric.
In the current drive to create more homes, Riba president Angela Brady warns against builders producing "another generation of poor quality homes without adequate space and natural light".
Compare a contractum trinius to a murabaha contract, a structured financial product offered by Islamic banks as a way around the Koran's proscription of riba, or usury.
Printed in sheets and fitted onto the robot's arms and chest, the sensors enable high-precision tactile guidance and allow RIBA-II to quickly detect a person's weight from touch alone, guaranteeing patient safety.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
The first robot capable of lifting a patient from a bed to a wheelchair and back, RIBA charted a new course in the development of care-giving robots, yet functional limitations prevented its direct commercialization.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
In the future, RTC researchers will work together with partner nursing care facilities to test RIBA-II and further tailor it to the needs of care-givers and their patients, while also developing new applications in areas such as rehabilitation.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
New joints in the robot's base and lower back enable RIBA-II to crouch down and lift a patient off a futon at floor level (Figure 1), the most physically strenuous task for care-givers and one that RIBA was not able to do.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
In 2009, the RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research (RTC), a joint project established in 2007 and located at the Nagoya Science Park in central Japan, unveiled a robot called RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) designed to assist in this task.
ENGADGET: RIBA-II healthcare robot now stronger, smarter -- still a bear
Sponsored by the RIBA Trust and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, the show also features handsome new models and some of the earliest publications of Palladio's work from the RIBA's and the Morgan's collections, including Lord Burlington's own copy of the Quattro Libri.
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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