Medical

Junkosha has concluded its successful second year of the Technology Innovator of the Year Award.

With every successive year, the lines between medical devices and consumer electronics become increasingly blurred – medtech companies seek to expand their reach beyond patients, and consumer electronics companies have targeted medical applications as a key focus for their wearable products.

Rapidly growing markets for robot innovation include applications that enhance human health and wellbeing, such as bionics and robotic surgery.

The rapid development of 3D printing technologies has opened new possibilities, not only in industry and design but also in the field of medicine.

WASP, committed to developing innovative solutions to improve healthcare, created WASP Med in 2015, a multidisciplinary group dedicated to medical 3D printing.

Laser-patterned thin films that swell into kirigami-like structures offer new opportunities in hydrogel technology.

Medtronic has announced the latest advancements in AI for endoscopic care by unveiling ColonPRO, the latest generation software for the GI Genius intelligent endoscopy system, along with a strategic collaboration designed to enhance patient care.

Intel and Altera, a subsidiary of Intel, have introduced a series of new products designed for Edge computing, aimed at integrating AI across diverse markets such as retail, healthcare, and industrial sectors, during the embedded world conference.

Saelig has introduced the new Sciospec ISX-3 Electrical Impedance Tomography System for medical and industrial applications.

Medtronic, a global specialist in healthcare technology, has announced positive clinical trial safety and efficacy results for Sphere-360, an investigational single-shot mapping and ablation catheter using pulsed field (PF) energy, for treatment of patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AFib).