Tag: Boston University

Robotic exosuits show ‘immediate improvements’ to walking speeds of stroke survivors

A new small study out of Harvard and Boston University is targeting the use of soft robotic exosuits among stroke survivors. The aim is to demonstrate how such technologies could impact the rehabilitation of patients suffering hemiparesis, a kind of paralysis that impacts muscles and limbs on one side of…

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Edtech startups prepare to become ‘not just a teaching tool but a necessity’

As classrooms close to limit the spread of the coronavirus, educators scramble to move learning online Natasha Mascarenhas 8 hours As Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and others shutter classrooms to limit the coronavirus outbreak, college educators around the country are clambering to move their classes online.  At the same time, tech…

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