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Medical
The medical end market refers to the application of engineering to medicine and biology in order to improve healthcare treatment such as diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. Includes, but is not limited to, prostheses, robotics, implants, devices, and genetic engineering. A major part of this category is research and development.
Robots Impact Wellbeing at Work—Depending on Their Looks
Robots as mental well-being coaches in the workplace may be useful– but it depends on what the robot looks like.…
TI’s Chipset for Self-Cleaning Cameras and Sensors
Texas Instruments recently unveiled purpose-built semiconductors with ultrasonic lens cleaning (ULC) technology so…
Fabricating Supercapacitors on Paper
Flexible electronics consisting of electrodes with plastic or metal foil as substrates power wearables. But there’s…
Columbia Engineers Bring Robots Home
Columbia computer scientists and the Toyota Research Institute are making advanced home robots a reality. Robots…
What Do a Robot and an Octopus Have in Common?
Octopus arms have almost infinite degrees of freedom and perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping,…
On-Demand Genome Sequences
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed an innovative software tool to assemble complete…
3D Objects Created with Sound Waves
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and the Heidelberg University announced the creation…
ChatGPT, MD?
You've likely heard about ChatGPT by now. The conversational AI can do it all, even power Microsoft's Bing. Well,…
Your Brain on Movies
We all love a good movie. They transport us, taking us to worlds and environments many of us won't see in our…
Will You Genetically Enhance Your Offspring?
Well, this might make more sense than scheming to get kids into the right university when they haven't even…