by Alice Williams | July 12, 2019 | General News, Medical
We live in a world obsessed with data. Devices grow continually smarter, capturing vast amounts of information about every conceivable topic: online behaviors, consumer preferences, even individual sleep patterns. As access to this tantalizing human data has grown, so...
by Bruce Brown | July 11, 2019 | Enabling Tech
The concept of artificial muscles is intriguing. Whether the purpose of lab-sourced musculature is greater strength or enhanced mobility for humans or robots, the idea is easy to grasp and the prospects are inspiring. We’ve written about researchers at the...
by Bruce Brown | July 10, 2019 | Medical
Agencies, universities, and private companies increasingly turn to machine learning to speed up and improve the predictive accuracy of healthcare technology testing. A group of more than 30 top hospitals and research institutions in Europe and the U.S. formed the...
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by Bruce Brown | July 9, 2019 | Enabling Tech
We’ve written about myriad technologies developed to assist people with upper or lower body impairments. Cyberdyne’s Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) exoskeleton senses minute motion signals on the skin to determine the wearer’s intention. Seoul National...
by Bruce Brown | July 8, 2019 | Health
French researchers at two Paris institutions recently published the results of an investigation of patients’ perceptions of wearable biometric monitoring devices (BMDs) and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare in npr Digital Medicine. The researchers from...
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by Bruce Brown | July 5, 2019 | Health
Assistive robotics take many forms. We’ve written about a brain implant developed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical College that enables the sense of touch for a robotic arm. Scientists at the University of Tübingen’s Applied Neurotechnology Lab created a...
