ETH Zurich researchers have redefined the muscle shirt. Marie Georgarakis, a former doctoral student at ETH Zurich’s Sensory Motor Systems Lab, is the creator of the Myoshirt, a wearable, textile robotic device that helps users lift their arms and reach. A motorized cable works like an artificial tendon, directed by sensors and an algorithm to […]
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Researchers develop insulin-producing artificial beta cells
Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed artificial beta cells that can measure blood glucose concentration and respond by producing insulin. The team’s work was published this week in Science. The ETH researchers used the natural glucose transport proteins and potassium channels found in the membrane of human kidney cells and modified them with a voltage-dependent calcium channel, […]
Newly developed exoskeleton mimics human knee
Mechanical engineers from ETH Zurich have developed a prototype exoskeleton, the VariLeg, which they say more accurately mimics natural knee gait to give it an advantage on uneven terrain. The newly developed prosthetic is designed to continuously change knee stiffness so it can adapt to irregular surfaces or obstacles, according to a Reuters report. “Here […]