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Harvard’s Robotic Arm for Endoscopic Surgery

Pop-up Soft Robotic Arm for Endoscopic Procedures
Quoting directly: “We were able to design a device that can lie flat when [MORE]

A Wound Monitoring Bandage

 
Sensor areas on the Flusitex bandage will glow when exposed to UV if wound is chronic
Swiss engineers have designed a [MORE]

Soft and Stretchy Wearable Monitors

Soft and stretchy fabric-based sensors for wearable robots
Lots of wearable sensors now exist, but this piece describes the advantages of [MORE]

Wearable Muscles

Wearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boost
“This “Myoshirt” from ETH Zurich is designed as a vest, with cuffs for [MORE]

Printing a “Metabot”

3D printed Metabot
“A breakthrough development enabled the entire mechanical and electronic systems needed to operate a robot to be manufactured [MORE]

Inhibiting Hospital Acquired Infections without Antibiotics

 
Coating on catheter (left) inhibits bacterial growth
UCLA engineers have created a material that inhibits bacterial growth on catheters, stents, heart [MORE]

Low Cost Wearable Nitrogen Dioxide Sensor

 
Intrinsically breathable and flexible NO2 Gas sensors
“The surge in air pollution and respiratory diseases across the globe has spurred significant [MORE]

A Microgel that Induces Immune Acceptance of Implanted Islet Cells

Microgel that Induces Immune Acceptance of Implanted Islet Cells
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborators report “. . . a [MORE]

New Polymer for Drug Delivery in the GI Tract

A new polymer system to revolutionize the delivery of therapeutics
“Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they [MORE]

Heart on a Chip

 
New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures
Boston University engineers “demonstrate how high-precision fabrication can enable scaled-down modeling of [MORE]

Hydrogel for Removing Kidney Stone Fragments

Hydrogel with small fragments of kidney stones
“Kidney stones are often removed via an endoscopic procedure. If a stone is too [MORE]

Wireless, Wearable ECG Device

Folding Design Leads to Heart Sensor with Smaller Profile
“This study develops a breathable, stretchable sensor sheet by employing a kirigami [MORE]

A Biomimetic Retina

A flexible capacitive photoreceptor for the biomimetic retina
“There is a dire need for devices to mimic the retina’s photoreceptors that [MORE]

Surgical “Duct Tape”

Surgical Duct Tape Quickly Seals Intestinal Leaks
“Researchers at MIT have created a surgical tape that can seal leaks and tears [MORE]