Category: mit
Fitbit gains FDA authorization for its low-cost emergency ventilator
Fitbit has secured an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Fitbit Flow emergency ventilator. The ventilator hardware is low-cost, and doesn’t require very much training or expertise to use, making it a good solution for deployment in scenarios where healthcare systems are…
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MIT gives soft robots a better sense of touch and spatial awareness
You know robotic grippers are getting advanced when they can pick up a potato chip without crushing it. In order to do that, they need tactile sensing and proprioception — an awareness of where they are in space. This kind of sensing has been absent… Source
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Immunai wants to map the entire immune system and raised $20 million in seed funding to do it
For the past two years the founding team of Immunai had been working stealthily to develop a new technology to map the immune system of any patient. Founded by Noam Solomon, a Harvard and MIT-educated postdoctoral researcher, and former Palantir engineer, Luis Voloch, Immunai was born from the two men’s…
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MIT wants to use your microwaving habits to study your health
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created a wireless system that monitors how people use the appliances in their homes. The team believes that with data about how and when users operate everyt… Source
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In a potential big win for renewable energy, Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation
Form Energy, which is developing what it calls ultra-low-cost, long-duration energy storage for the grid, has signed a contract with the Minnesota-based Great River Energy to develop a 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour pilot project. The second-largest electric utility in the U.S., Great River Energy’s installation in Cambridge, Minn. will…
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Max Q: Countdown to a return to U.S. astronaut launches
Last week was a fairly busy week in space news, but the dominating story was preparation for the first ever commercial crew launch that will actually carry human astronauts to space. This is, in many ways, the culmination of years of work and billions of dollars spent by partners NASA…
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