Tag: semiconductors
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Lightweight AI Chip Designer Raises $2.8M in Seed Funds
A new company is designing computer chips and devices with artificial intelligence modeled on insect brains for autonomous vehicles and robotic systems.
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New Funds Advance Hand-Wrist Neural Rehab Device
Developers of a system to help people with spinal cord injuries regain use of their hands and wrists, are configuring the device for home use.
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Wireless Sensor Detects Multiple Covid-19 Indicators
Biomedical engineers designed a lab-on-a-chip sensor that quickly detects SARS-CoV-2 viruses in saliva or blood, as well as antibodies and indicators of disease severity.
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Group Advancing Electronic Spinal Cord Injury Therapies
A consortium of academic and industry labs is integrating electronic sensors and neural stimulation therapies into an early treatment protocol for spinal cord injuries.
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Breath Analysis Sensor Licensed to Detect Covid-19
Discoveries in a university lab that enable detection of Covid-19 infections from a person’s breath are being licensed for development by a biotechnology company.
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High-Capacity Brain Signal Reader Demonstrated
A brain-computer interface device is shown to record the highest volume of brain signals from lab animals and sheep, according to its developers.
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Single Sensor to Detect Covid-19, Flu in Works
A university engineering team is developing an electronic sensor to quickly detect and distinguish between Covid-19 and influenza viruses.
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Microscopic Optical Sensor Circuits Demonstrated
Researchers exhibited solar-powered integrated circuit sensors with LED lights, smaller than can be seen with the naked eye, for mass production at low cost.
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Proteins from Bacteria Generate Power for Wearables
A collaboration of engineers and biologists created a way of producing electric power from humidity in the air with fine wires made of proteins from bacteria.
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Semiconductors Developed to Emulate Nerve Cells
Physicists and neuroscientists created semiconductors that in lab simulations and tests with animal models perform like nerve cells for biological functions.