by Alfred Poor | March 22, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
In traditional robot designs, different tasks are relegated to different components. For example, a rigid rod may serve the function of a limb or finger. A separate motor will cause the rod to move. And sensors placed at the tips or hinges provide feedback about...
by Alfred Poor | March 19, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been racking up the wins in health and medical applications these days. From uncovering different forms of diabetes to predicting heart disease from retina scans, machine learning has uncovered all sorts of hidden knowledge that is...
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2018 | General News, Medical
Patient follow-up systems after surgical discharge have an important positive impact on outcomes, but they can also add a heavy layer of administrative complexity and expense, according to The National Academy of Sciences. While attending Harvard Medical School and...
by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Artificial intelligence and big data score once again for health tech. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Boston University’s Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics recently published a study in Radiology. The...