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Breath Analysis for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring

Breath Analysis for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring
Exhaled breath analysis holds great promise for the development of noninvasive, frequently repeatable diagnostic and monitoring tools. (See Table below.) Recently there has been great clinical interest in breath analysis, considering its applicability to disease states such as asthma, …

Driver Alertness Monitoring Using Fusion of Facial Features and Bio-Signals

Driver Alertness Monitoring Using Fusion of Facial Features and Bio-Signals
This article begins with an extensive review of the literature on incorporating sensors into transport systems to monitor driver alertness. The fatigue monitoring system developed by the authors, which incorporates elements of prior work is implemented …

A Robot Ankle for Amputees

A Robot Ankle for Amputees
The BiOM, one of the world’s most advanced ankles, comes from the cutting-edge prosthetics company iWalk. The company was founded by MIT professor Hugh Herr, who directs the biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab. IEEE Spectrum visited iWalk’s headquarters in …

Playdates with Robots

Playdates with Robots
The authors undertook their Learning with Kids project to investigate the use of robots interacting with children in a one-to-one setting to review or explain concepts. Their project involved collaboration with roboticists at Honda Research Institute USA and with a cognitive scientist from …

Feeling the Pressure

Feeling the Pressure
Accurate measurement of Intraocular Pressure, or IOP (the fluid pressure inside the eye) is important for the diagnosis and treatment of human eye diseases, such as glaucoma.
Currently, IOP is clinically determined with an external tonometer which measures the deflection of the cornea in …