Important Innovations Collection

Breakthrough  Bioprinting Method Source:  Carnegie Mellon University Big Step Toward Printing Functioning, Adult Human Heart A breakthrough in 3d bioprinting has brought the world closer to printing fully functional human hearts.  The invention comes from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.  It involves both a new technique and an additional substance.  This is important medical innovation because millions of people worldwide are in need of a new heart.  Today, in the US, 4000 patients are on a list for a heart transplant. New Technique and Substance The new technique is called FRESH or Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels.  It remedies the problem of liquid collagen, which is the major structural protein in the human body, puddling in the air as its goes through 3D printing to create a heart.  The scientists have successfully used hydrogel as temporary support for the layers of liquid collagen as t...

World 1st:  Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Continuously Tracks & Follows Computer Cursor Source:  Carnegie Mellon & University of  Minnesota Breakthrough Technology This is very exciting breakthrough technology.  Engineers from Carnegie Mellon and University of Minnesota have invented a non-invasive, brain-computer interface (BCI).  It's an EEG cap that enables a person to control a robotic arm simply by their thoughts.  The control over the robotic arm is very sophisticated.  Through the person's thoughts, the robotic arm can continuously track and follow a computer cursor.  No surgery and no brain implant are required. Head Cap - Noninvasive Robot Device Control The team has developed an EEG head cap that can detect signals deep in the brain.  These signals of information and commands are clarified by new, novel sensing and machine learning techniques that the team invented.  This is also the first, noninvasive robot de...