New Robotic Finger Is More Sensitive Than Human Skin [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 31, 2022 | Enabling Tech

We’ve written about BeBop Sensors, Inc. several times in recent years, primarily covering the Berkeley, California-based company’s fabric sensor systems and haptic gloves. Most recently in May 2022, we wrote about BeBop’s developments with smart...

A Big Private Insurer Now Covers Digital Therapeutics

by William McCleary | October 31, 2022 | Medical

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared them. And now the private sector may be going all in on digital therapeutics (DTx). At least that looks like the direction we’re headed with the latest move from Highmark, a Pittsburgh-based insurer that serves...

AI Speech Analysis Adds New Dimension to Concussion Detection [video]

by William McCleary | October 28, 2022 | Health, Medical

Even if you don’t follow the NFL, you’ve probably seen one piece of troubling football news: head trauma. The issue is so prevalent that it prompted a study, led by Boston University neurologist Ann McKee, in which researchers conducted post-mortem exams...

Ankle Exoskeleton Learns How You Walk [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2022 | Enabling Tech

A prosthetic that’s smarter, faster, and easier than other technologies sounds like a win-win-win. That’s the three-measure goal a group of researchers from the Stanford Biomechatronics Laboratory set for their untethered exoskeleton. Any prosthetic that...

A Bionic Leg is Going Big [video]

by William McCleary | October 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech

They’re touting it as “the most advanced bionic leg ever created.” And its creators, researchers at the University of Utah’s Bionic Engineering Lab, seem to have the proof to back up that bold claim, evidenced in a study that was published in Nature...

Detect Parkinson’s and COVID in 10 Seconds From Speech

by Unber Shafiq | October 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech

We recently covered MIT’s Parkinson’s detecting AI model that offers diagnosis based on the patient’s breathing pattern. A recent research published in the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, IEEE Access, and Computers in Biology and...