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by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...
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by Bruce Brown | August 7, 2020 | Medical
Uncertainty and worry about concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a one-two punch; the injury might not get to you, but the stress can wear you down. Professional athletes and their families and parents of student-athletes in particular often face...
by Bruce Brown | August 6, 2020 | Health
Does your back bother you? If it does, you’re not alone. According to the CDC, approximately 25% of U.S. adults report low back pain over the prior three months. Non-specific lower back pain (NLBP) is the most common pain reported and nearly 14% of insured...
by Bruce Brown | August 5, 2020 | Health
We often write about remote health monitoring technology for a variety of health conditions, rehab, post-surgery discharge, and more. This year the pandemic spurred the development of AI-based apps and devices for COVID-19 screening. For example, researchers from...
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by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison working together at Cornell’s SciFi Lab developed FingerTrak, a potentially breakthrough wearable that tracks human hand motion in 3D. The SciFi Lab is a new interdisciplinary lab...
