This is medicine in the semiconductor era.

Exoskeletons restore mobility altogether - or make the superhuman possible. Nanotechnologies accelerate healing at the cellular level, both inside and outside the body. Wearables and biometric sensors provide real-time insight into patient health biology, which tailors diagnoses and treatments. Prosthetics gain novel motion control, exceptional comfortability and sometimes tactility and normality for users. AI helps overworked doctors and nurses analyze data and stays alert about patient biology.

Welcome to the cutting edge of medical innovation, where technology and biology converge in exceptional ways. That convergence is driven by the cross-disciplinary efforts of many engineers.

The healthcare future is personal, digital and revolutionary. Are you ready to build it?

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• Wearable sensors detects glucose levels for 3 weeks (February 2025)
• Tailoring robots and cobots for medical applications (February 2025)
• The exoskeleton revolution (July 2024)
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• Detecting AF in shoppers using grocery cart handles (July 2023)
• A look at medical needle technologies (May 2023)
• Old CDs find new life as biosensors (August 2022)
• MIT develops surgical "duct tape" for wound healing (February 2022)