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As wearable electronic devices continue to be more prevalent, it becomes an ever-greater challenge for companies that manufacture them to keep their competitive edge. It is vitally important for manufacturers that each device is effective, cost-efficient and reflects the highest quality available.
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In this episode, we discuss how a wearable based sensing platform developed by MIT can provide detailed information about a user’s muscle activity and enable virtual physical therapy to increase access for this vital practice.
After years of careful development, engineers have created a boot-like exoskeleton that increases walking speed and reduces effort outside of the lab.
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Carnegie Mellon University collaborators pioneer the CMU Array—a customizable, 3D nano-printed, ultra-high-density microelectrode array platform for next-generation brain-computer interfaces. This technology can transform the way doctors are able to treat neurological disorders.
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Real-time monitoring of the situation in an ambulance. This provides enormous benefits for both the doctor and the patient. It could even save lives. The Connected Ambulance makes it possible.
In this episode, we talk about how consumer grade wearable technology could be used to diagnose sleep disorders impacting ~1 billion people.
By continuously monitoring a patient’s gait speed, the system can assess the condition’s severity between visits to the doctor’s office.
The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has begun its commissioning experiments
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International team develops device for continuous, wireless nitric oxide monitoring
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Interdisciplinary team builds multi-task machine learning model for randomized controlled trial
Artificial intelligence (AI) is showing significant promise in medical imaging. To translate this promise to reality requires rigorous evaluation of these algorithms.
Although robots cannot replace human caregivers, they can provide support so that caregivers have more time to provide the personal, human touch.
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Interdisciplinary team tackles complexity of clinical data in perioperative care
As a physicist and ‘real techie’, Sofie Baselmans dedicated her career to creating healthcare technology. Always searching for the ‘perfect’ workplace, she worked in a hospital and in several corporate environments.
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Advancements in 3D printing have helped to lower the cost of robotics innovation by more than 40,000x! This article explains how that happened and highlights 5 categories of end-use robotics components that can be made on-demand with additive manufacturing today.
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