Your skin is superb at keeping things out, which is great until a medicine needs to get in. A team at Georgia Tech has designed a fix that looks, under a microscope, like a tiny spiky ball, and on November 4, 2026 the university described a new version built to disappear after use.
A cream-friendly alternative to patches
Mark Prausnitz, a Regents' Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has spent years working on ways to move drugs through the skin's oute...
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Wearable robot for autonomous motion assistance
'HAL' a company in Japan has developed wearable robot for autonomous motion assistance which is controlled by the person's brain wearing the suit.
When a person moves its body, the brain sends various signals to muscles via nerves. At that time, the signals leak out on the skin surface as BES. HAL for Living Support – Lower Limb Type Model reads a wearer’s BES and reinforce the lower limb’s muscle power accordingly. Consequently Robot Suit assists the wearer to walk, stand up and sit down by ...
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