Tag: physical sciences
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Human-Friendly Robot Designed for A.I.
A robotics team at University of California in Berkeley designed a device to learn about humans’ needs with artificial intelligence and respond gently to their presence.
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Autonomous Robots Designed for Flood Projects
As towns and cities face more threats of floods from climate change, a new type of autonomous robot offers a technology to help prevent or contain the damage.
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Process Devised for Sensor-Fitted Personal Prosthetics
Biomedical engineers developed techniques to produce low-cost personalized electronic-enabled prosthetic devices for people with limb loss.
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Virtual Reality Harnessed to View Inside Blood Vessels
A medical team demonstrated the feasibility of virtual reality to visualize and guide a catheter inside blood vessels through a three-dimensional human model.
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Genetic Risk Analysis Shows Ethnic Bias
Techniques analyzing data from across the genome that reveal risks of diseases, better predict disorders in the main ethnicity of the population studied than other ethnic groups.
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Federal Agency Holds A.I.-Health Outcomes Challenge
The U.S. agency directing Medicare and Medicaid is sponsoring a challenge competition to spur development of artificial intelligence to predict health care outcomes.
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Brain Stimulator Device Cleared for Depression, Insomnia
A device sending weak electric impulses into the brain from headphones is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to treat depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
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Ancient DNA Studied for Mental Health Clues
A lab studying DNA from past civilizations and the genomics technology company Illumina are investigating remains of ancient peoples for insights into today’s neurological disorders.
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NSF Funding Natural Agri-Chemical Technology
A start-up company spun-off from Cornell University is receiving a small business grant to develop in crop plants a natural protection against pathogens.
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Virtual Reality Coupled with EEG for Autism
An engineering-psychology team is developing a system connecting virtual reality with brain signals in real time to improve clinical treatments for autism spectrum disorder.