Robotic Shorts Help Walking and Running [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 9, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 2017, we wrote about researchers at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering who focus on wearable robotics to assist human walking. The earlier post reported the team’s...

Artificial Nervous System for Exceptional Touch [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 6, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Researchers and engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed an artificial nervous system, building on their earlier work with smart skin. The Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES) has an exceptional sense of touch and can detect contact more...

Wearables Market Still Growing Strong

by Alfred Poor | September 3, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health, Medical

A few years ago, you could strap a hand-soldered circuit board onto a wrist strap and grab headlines. Fortunately, the feeding frenzy over wearable technology has subsided somewhat, but that doesn’t mean that this maturing industry has stalled. To the contrary,...

Retinal Prosthesis to Restore Vision

by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Scientists at Okayama University report progress creating prosthetic technology that stimulates degenerated retinal tissues. According to the CDC, nearly 10 million people in the U.S. currently suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or diabetic...

Stretchable Sensor Enables Long-term Monitoring [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Continuous biometric monitoring provides more valuable data than single readings, but concerns about patient comfort and convenience must be considered. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and...

Handheld Skin Cancer Diagnosis Breakthrough

by Bruce Brown | August 27, 2019 | Enabling Tech

As an adult on the far side of middle age who lives in the South, I have an annual dermatology checkup. Most years my doctor finds a questionable spot or two on my skin. I suspect he can tell whether an area is a likely concern on visual inspection, but he is willing...