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Briefs: Medical
Flexible, wearable electronics could be used for precision medical sensors attached to the skin, designed to perform health monitoring and diagnosis.
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Blog: Data Acquisition
A microelectronic fiber with microscopic parameters is capable of analyzing electrolytes and metabolites in sweat.
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Blog: AR/AI
The term artificial intelligence (AI) has become an everyday catch phrase. The way it’s used all over the media, however, is very different from the way I think about it.
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INSIDER: Medical
First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. These hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to...
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Blog: Medical
A new take on an old design using artificial intelligence has the potential to make life incredibly easier for the visually impaired.
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Quiz: Design
How much do you know about medical robots, a market expected to reach $22.89 billion by 2030? Find out with this quiz.
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Blog: Medical
Researchers have developed a portable sensor made of simple materials to detect heavy metals in sweat, which is easily sampled.
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NASA Spinoff: Wearables
Resulting in applications once thought impossible, sensor technology for understanding mind-body interface builds on research for space travel.
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Briefs: Medical
Using a suspended nanowire, a research team has created a tiny sensor that can simultaneously measure electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue — a first.
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Briefs: Wearables
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers have developed a thin, flexible, stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat — at the press of a finger.
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Briefs: Design
The next generation of wearable computing technology will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or glasses: It will be affixed to the skin.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This set of oculomotor metrics provide valid and reliable measures of dynamic visual performance.
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Briefs: Design
The respirator earned a 100 percent success rate for fit testing.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Device detects pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation in real time.
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Briefs: Medical
A novel 3D printed prosthetic arm is more comfortable, flexible, and cheaper than a conventional prosthesis.
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Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
To overcome the limitations of using cleaning agents, sprays, or bulky high-cost sterilizing systems, NASA developed the Ultraviolet Germicidal Door Handle.
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Briefs: Medical
Users can download the design files to 3D print and assemble a customizable peristaltic pump.
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5 Ws: Medical
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed low-cost, painless, and bloodless tattoos that can be self-administered and have many applications.
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Quiz: Medical
How much do you know about e-skin? Find out with the quiz below.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products on the market, including power inductors, vibration sensors, a field TV connector, and more.
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Briefs: AR/AI
Companies in many industries are completely revamping the way in which their manufacturing arms are designing, building, producing, and servicing their goods.
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Briefs: Medical
Researchers have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape.
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Briefs: IoMT
The design goal is to provide exceptional RF signal range and stability, while also reducing power consumption, in a miniaturized package.
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Q&A: Medical
Professor Jun Yao and his team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have created a tiny sensor that can simultaneously measure electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue.
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Quiz: Design
One silver lining that the pandemic brought is an expansion of infectious-disease-testing technology.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Inspired by NASA’s research of certain segments of DNA to estimate radiation damage, Promega Corp. used the technique to create its own diagnostic test which is used to customize cancer treatment.
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Medical Robotics - November 2022
"Millirobots" swimming in your bloodstream...soft robots you can print on demand...cobots hard at work in the test lab. Read about these and other innovative technologies in this compendium of recent articles...

Briefs: Medical
Fluid could provide a new source of information for routine diagnostic testing.
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