Walk through almost any modern car plant or aerospace hangar and you will find two kinds of robots. The first kind builds things: it welds, rivets, paints and lifts. The second kind, far rarer, checks whether the first kind did its job correctly. That second job has always been harder to automate, because a robot arm that is good enough to move a welding torch is rarely precise enough to measure a part to a fraction of a millimeter. On November 5, 2026, ZEISS announced a machine designed to clo...
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New prosthetic heart valve offers alternative to open heart surgery
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel prosthetic heart valve, known as VeloX, which can be implanted through a small incision for the treatment of a serious heart valve disorder called mitral regurgitation. This is a condition in which the mitral valve on the left side of the heart does not close properly. The device is particularly beneficial to patients who are of high surgical risk or are unsuitable for existing clinical interventions.
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A Novel Stethoscope Save Costs and Save Lives
A new cardiac stethoscope funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) helps doctors detect heart failure more effectively than ever before.
Despite advances in medicine that make many heart conditions treatable, the absence of effective, early diagnosis often leads to sudden, unexpected deaths. Annually more than one million patients are hospitalized due to heart failure and the cost of health care services, medications to treat heart failure etc. are tremendous. Furthermore most of the p...
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