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Date Time Innovative mechanical system makes it easy to turn bedridden patients A mechanical system developed at EPFL’s Instant-Lab halves the number of hospital staff needed to turn coma patients and makes the task less physically demanding. It has won the approval of the doctors and nurses who tested the system on dummies. It takes around five or six people and a considerable amount of effort to turn an intubated patient in a hospital bed. For patients in an artificial coma, this procedure is performed at least twice a day in order to improve patients’ breathing and prevent bedsores. An...

Puerto Rican undergraduate students majoring in electrical, mechanical, computer, agricultural, or industrial engineering, as well as computer science, will have the opportunity to participate in the student competition Challenge to Innovate: NASA Edition, an initiative of the pre-acceleration program pre18 and the Technology Transfer Office (TTO), both programs of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research (PRSTRT), together with the innovation center Engine-4, where participants will have a workspace to build solutions with NASA technologies. Students interested in participating have ...

This gives speakers access to gadgets that use AI enabled speech recognition Personal digital assistants can soon ‘converse’ with you in Telugu, and with a greater level of accuracy. For, the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad has embarked on an ambitious project of crowdsourcing at least 2,000 hours of speech in this language that could be used in such devices. According to Prakash Yalla from IIIT’s Technology Transfer Office, the move comes after talks between various organisations and the Centre. Around ₹1 crore has been earmarked for the project. ...

Technology Transfer Office 600+ technologies managed; 700+ IP agreements completed; and 60+ company start ups and spin-outs. The Technology Transfer  Office pursues three primary goals: Establishing collaborations and working relationships between industry and each of the research and creative areas of MSU. This includes pursuing industry sponsored research and collaborating on commercial opportunities. Licensing the inventions of MSU faculty and researchers to industry and managing the relatio...