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...

Non-Thermal Lasers Treat Back Pain

by Bruce Brown | September 5, 2019 | Medical

Statistics on the prevalence of chronic low back pain vary by age, gender, and work status, but the incidence exceeds 20% for all U.S. adults in CDC studies. According to a 2018 commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by faculty from...

Machine Learning Predicts ED Discharge Mortality

by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2019 | Medical

A new study published in BMJ Open by medical schools and hospitals in Sweden and Boston explored the real-world value of new medical technologies. Return on healthcare spending suffers when patients do not live to benefit from the procedures. The study’s...

Fetal Vibration Monitor Could Reduce Stillbirths

by Bruce Brown | September 3, 2019 | Health

Each year in the U.S., there are about 24,000 stillbirths — about 1% of all births — according to the CDC. Medical science does not know all the reasons for stillbirth, says Stevens Institute of Technology associate professor Negar Tavassolian. About a...

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,...