by Bruce Brown | December 26, 2018 | Medical
3D printing technologies already deliver key benefits to medicine across diverse applications. We’ve written about 3D printed cartilage implants, sensors and electronics that are 3D-printed directly on the skin, and 3D printed hemispherical bionic eyes. Various...
by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2018 | General News
If we’re going to make robots, exoskeletons, smart prosthetics, and artificial skin, what’s to hold us back from giving them superhuman attributes? We’ve mentioned in the past that DARPA, the “invent the impossible” U.S. Defense Advanced...
by Bruce Brown | January 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
In the past two decades, 3D printing progressed from plastic novelties to prototype parts to wide-ranging additive manufacturing applications. Today, for example, GE Aviation is already producing FAA approved parts for aircraft engines. The health and wellness...
by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Brain plasticity — the ability to change based on experience and time — holds promise for wide-ranging advances in health and medical technology. In the field of robotics, intentional brain rewiring enables breaching the brain-machine interface. In short,...
by Kimberly Houston | November 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you’re among the millions of viewers who’ve tuned into the Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” you’ve seen the character Eleven use her telekinetic powers to liberate herself and her friends from the Hawkins lab goons, all using the power of her mind....