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Medical & healthcare

Kidney Research UK launches competition for dialysis tech

AI tool predicts hospital bed demand

Developed by NTU Singapore and TTSH, MRBA is a wearable assistive robot that can detect and prevent a fall before it happens, reducing the user’s risk of sustaining injuries

Wearable robotic device detects and prevents falls

The sensor would determine whether the dressing required changing, can come off completely or if the wound is infected

Biosensor gives real-time wound-healing assessment

Tech that reads lips through masks offers boost to hearing-impaired

Dotplot home breast health monitoring tool wins UK James Dyson Award

A textile logic gate, part of Rice University engineers’ design of fluidic logic for garments to help people with functional limitations perform tasks without electronic assistance

Pneumatic circuits embedded into fabric to create assistive apparel

Anoop Rajappan, left, and Daniel Preston of Rice University set up an experiment with their fabric air pump. The lab developed its textile-based energy harvesting shoe able to power assistive devices for people with disabilities

Rice team’s extra limb powered by compressed air

Nanowire sensor shows promise for cardiac disease studies

The RMIT team’s concrete that was made using PPE

Recycled PPE could strengthen concrete

AI-enabled device show promise for monitoring traumatic brain injury

Tokyo team adds stability to acoustic tweezer technology