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Virtual Reality & Robotics Help Paralyzed Patients Learn to Walk Again
Long-term paraplegics, fully paralysed from the waist down, have experienced a partial recovery after training with virtual reality (VR) and robotic technologies. Researchers in Brazil carried out the...
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LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot Kills Infection-Causing Microbes in Hopstials
Meet LightStrike – the robot making hospitals safer by zapping germs with UV rays. Across the world, hospitals are looking at innovative ways to battle deadly pathogens or kill antibiotic resistant...
View ArticleDARPA Announces Funding For a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just announced contracts to fund five research groups and one company contracts as jump start its Neural Engineering System...
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MIT spinout PlenOptika aims to make vision care more accessible in developing...
Getting a glasses prescription is often difficult in developing countries. However, engineers at PlenOptika – an MIT spinout – aim to help with a new device that can create an estimated prescriptions...
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New imaging system makes back surgery safer, faster and less expensive
Engineers from Dartmouth College are pioneering a new way to make back surgery faster, cheaper and safer. Engineers from the Thayer School of Engineering and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth...
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AI to help arthritis patients manage their flare-ups
A partnership between UK health company Living With, the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH), and the University of Bath has nabbed a major grant to develop a Rheumatoid Arthritis...
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Lego Braille bricks help visually impaired children learn
Lego has revealed its newest line of building blocks – however, these are a bit a different. The new Braille-based design aims to help visually impaired children learn the language. Your browser does...
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What neuroscientists are learning about our brains in space by launching...
More than 500 people have travelled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects our physical health, we know almost nothing about how it affects our minds. So,...
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AI can help spot when correlation does mean causation
New Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech has been developed that can merge overlapping and incomplete medical datasets to determine which variables are causative. How artificial intelligence tackles...
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Thin Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Safe for Human Inhalation in First Controlled...
Graphene oxide has generated substantial interest globally with applications in electronics, energy, medicine, and more. However, uncertainties around the human health impacts of manufactured...
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