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Blog: Wearables

A Fully Integrated Autonomous Wearable Ultrasonic System-on-Patch (USoP)

Engineers at University of California San Diego have developed a fully integrated system for deep-tissue monitoring.

Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control

Real-Time Remote Heart Monitoring

Biotricity’s continuous heart rhythm monitor uses advanced technology to deliver unlimited heart data insights.

Blog: Wearables

First Wearable Health Sensor for Monitoring Muscle Atrophy

The wearable sensor aims to help patients who suffer from muscle atrophy monitor changes to their health in a more convenient way.

Quiz: IoMT

How Much Do You Know About IoMT?

How much do you know about IoMT, an industry that was valued at $99.58 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow to $486.34 billion by 2031? Find out with this quiz.

5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition

5Ws of a Smart Bandage

A new kind of smart bandage developed at Caltech may make treatment of chronic wounds easier, more effective, and less expensive.

Special Reports: Materials

Advanced Materials & Coatings - May 2023

Breakthroughs in plastics, composites, metals, and other materials technologies are enabling exciting new applications in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive to medical. Read more in this...

Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

New Hydration Sensor Enables “Smart Diapers” and Other Health Monitors

A new sensor — so cheap and simple to produce that it can be hand-drawn with a pencil onto paper treated with sodium chloride — could clear the way for wearable, self-powered health monitors.

Briefs: Materials

Peeling Back the Layers: Adhesives Testing for Wearables

Trends in wearable technology follow those of the broader biomedical and electronics industries — devices are getting smaller, smarter, and easier to use. Specifically, wearables in...

Briefs: Medical

Wearable Sensor Uses Ultrasound to Provide On-the-Go Cardiac Imaging

Researchers have developed a wearable ultrasound device — about the size of a postage stamp — that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart.

Videos of the Month: Medical

Videos of the Month

Watch the Videos of the Month, including one about a swimming robot, one about 3D printing a controllable replica of a patient’s heart, and two more.

Articles: Medical

Products of Tomorrow

See the Products of Tomorrow, including silicon photonic MEMS, a micro-robotic arm, and more.

Blog: AR/AI

How Risky is AI?

When AI is used for making health decisions, hiring decisions, financial credit decisions, or automobile-driving decisions, riskiness is a big deal — some people are working to reduce the risks.

Blog: Design

Smart Bandage Aims to Facilitate Recovery

A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.

INSIDER: Medical

Plastic Transistor Amplifies Biochemical Sensing Signal

The molecules in our bodies are in constant communication. Some of these molecules provide a biochemical fingerprint that could indicate how a wound is healing, whether a cancer...

Special Reports: Photonics/Optics

Optics & Photonics Innovations - April 2023

Demand for satellite communications bandwidth is quickly outstripping supply. The solution: optical, laser-based technologies. Read all about it – and other major photonics advances – in this...

Briefs: Medical

Ionic Magnetic Resonance Tailors Animal Cells/Tissues

An apparatus and method that controls the growth and proliferation of 3D biological cells and mammalian tissue in the presence of a pulsating, alternating ionic magnetic resonance field.

Briefs: Medical

Detecting COVID-Causing Virus with High-Tech Bubbles

A new technique enables the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the air by using a nanotechnology-packed bubble that spills its chemical contents like a broken piñata when encountering the virus.

Briefs: Materials

Inflatable, Shape-Changing Spinal Implants Could Help Treat Severe Pain

The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.

Briefs: Materials

Screen-Printing Method Could Reduce Cost of Wearables

New research shows the glittering, serpentine structures that power wearable electronics can be created with the same technology used to print concert t-shirts.

Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

New 3D-Printing Technique: A Game Changer for Medical Testing Devices

Researchers have developed a highly specialized 3D-printing technique that allows microfluidic channels to be fabricated on chips at a precise microscale.

INSIDER: Medical

Soft Robotic Wearable Restores Arm Function for People with ALS

Some 30,000 people in the U.S. are affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition that damages cells in...

INSIDER: Medical

Custom, 3D-Printed Robotic Hearts

The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.

NASA Spinoff: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Expediting Search and Rescue After Earthquakes

NASA-designed technology helps detect people trapped under several feet of rubble after earthquakes.

Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023

The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few of...