Sentences with phrase «guide wires»

They can be tailored to fit the most awkward and intricate shapes and the absence of guide wires means they are discreet when not in use.

The costly labor of laying guide wires is replaced by custom software that is carefully tuned for each route segment.

They react like guide wires, pulling, twisting, and stabilizing, allowing only specific segments to move while others hold on tight.

Similarly, many commercial robots can follow guide wires installed below the surface they move over, and some orient themselves using lasers that read bar codes on walls.

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to install guide wires under concrete oors, and the routes are then xed, making the robots economical only for large, exceptionally stable factories.

All of that has changed in the past year, with CCI investing $ 500,000 of its own cash into Tatara Vascular, a startup which makes a coronary guide wire.

Cardiologists use guide wires like Tatara's to facilitate the placement of stents or balloon dilatation catheters during coronary angioplasty procedures.

The potential market for materials - handling automation is large, but most of it has been inaccessible to older approaches involving buried guide wires or other path markers, which require extensive planning and installation costs and create inflexible routes.

Tubes made of polyurethane and silicone, with or without guide wires, are available.

Fortunately, existing AGVs, forklift trucks, oor scrubbers and other industrial machines designed for accommodating human riders or for following guide wires can be adapted for autonomy.

Like guiding wires that orient the sails of a ship, the tension in those cables is of utmost importance.

That guide wires for comparable cardiac tasks already existed in the marketplace shrunk the time frame considerably.

Whitlow knew firsthand that cardiologists often complained about how their guide wires could get twisted in the course of a procedure.

For Tatara, part of the de-risking process was putting the guide wires through six key performance tests — tests they'd have to complete in advance of regulatory filings, anyway — and comparing the results to those for guide wires already in the marketplace.

Advances in radiology have made it possible for specially trained neurosurgeons, called endovascular neurosurgeons, to make repairs from within blood vessels using catheters and guide wires.

They navigate by three - dimensionally grid - mapping their route, as seen through four wide - angle stereoscopic cameras mounted on a «head,» and require no guide wires or other navigational markers.

The new approach, called transcaval, involves threading a guide wire through a vein in a leg, and passing it from the main vein in the body into the main artery, the abdominal aorta.

Inserted into a patient, such a device could transport catheters and guide wires, carry a camera, or deliver drugs to the site of an injury.

Space station solar panels damaged The International Space Station hit a snag on Tuesday — literally — when a solar panel being unfurled accordion - style apparently got caught on a guide wire and suffered a two and a half — foot gash and a smaller rip, forcing NASA to plan a daring spacewalk to repair it.

Also, you may want to stabilize the tree by attaching a guide wire to the wall so that the cat doesn't knock it over.

This class is for handlers to learn to teach a more solid foundation for a 2 - on -2-off contact performance and independent weave pole performance using channels and guide wires.

It's fascinating, and we loved the trippy video where divers act like tightrope artists «walking» along their guide wires underwater.