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by Alfred Poor | August 29, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
In general, living organisms can heal themselves when they suffer minor injuries, but machines can’t. They have to soldier on — if they can — until somebody comes along and repairs them. As we come to expect more human behavior from robots, however,...
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by Alfred Poor | December 6, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
As wearable Health Tech devices tackle more sophisticated tasks, they will need to incorporate more sophisticated abilities. One such function is movement; it’s easy to think of applications where it could be useful for sensors to be able to move to different...
by Alfred Poor | October 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Almost all wearable Health Tech devices require some form of power in order to operate. For the vast majority, this power must be in the form of an electrical current. When it comes to delivering electricity to a device that is not plugged in, the most common solution...
by Alfred Poor | September 1, 2016 | Enabling Tech
In order to make a robot limb — or powered prosthetic — move, you need to have an actuator of some sort: something to apply force that will create motion. Common solutions rely on hydraulics (liquid pumps), pneumatics (air pumps), or electric motors. These...
by Alfred Poor | August 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Flat screen display technologies are amazing, especially when you compare them with the industry leader of just one decade ago: the CRT. Even though LCD and OLED displays are thin and light by comparison, they both have one important limitation; you have to create...
