Candidemia in an Orthopedic Patient Detected Coincidentally by Peripheral Blood Smear.

An elderly male, with a recent COVID-19 infection and cardiovascular comorbidities, experienced a prolonged hospitalization due to a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) and bacteremia, post hip hemiarthroplasty. Despite the initial clinical improvement while on targeted antimicrobial therapy, the patient later developed a low-grade fever and signs of myelosuppression. In the May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain of peripheral blood smear (PBS), pseudohyphae among red blood cells (RBCs) and phagocytosed blastospores in neutrophils and monocytes were detected, indicating candidemia rather than contamination of the stain.

XBot2D: towards a robotics hybrid cloud architecture for field robotics.

Nowadays, robotics applications requiring the execution of complex tasks in real-world scenarios are still facing many challenges related to highly unstructured and dynamic environments in domains such as emergency response and search and rescue where robots have to operate for prolonged periods trading off computational performance with increased power autonomy and . In particular, there is a crucial need for robots capable of adapting to such settings while at the same time providing robustness and extended power autonomy. A possible approach to overcome the conflicting demand of a computational performing system with the need for long power autonomy is represented by cloud robotics, which can boost the computational capabilities of the robot while reducing the energy consumption by exploiting the offload of resources to the cloud.

A Unified Multimodal Interface for the RELAX High-Payload Collaborative Robot.

This manuscript introduces a mobile cobot equipped with a custom-designed high payload arm called RELAX combined with a novel unified multimodal interface that facilitates Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) tasks requiring high-level interaction forces on a real-world scale. The proposed multimodal framework is capable of combining physical interaction, Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) radio sensing, a Graphical User Interface (GUI), verbal control, and gesture interfaces, combining the benefits of all these different modalities and allowing humans to accurately and efficiently command the RELAX mobile cobot and collaborate with it. The effectiveness of the multimodal interface is evaluated in scenarios where the operator guides RELAX to reach designated locations in the environment while avoiding obstacles and performing high-payload transportation tasks, again in a collaborative fashion.