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Using electronic ink and stencils, researchers created a cheap heart monitor and other health-detecting devices

“Draw-on-skin” electronics can record physiological signals while addressing the shortcomings of common wearable sensors

The next super sophisticated tool to draw circuits on your skin is an off-the-shelf pen. No joke.

Since its publication in late July, a research paper about drawn-on-skin electronics from a group overseen by Dr. Cunjiang Yu, the Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has been spotlighted by many media outlets.

Researchers have developed a new form of “drawn-on-skin” (DoS) electronics, allowing multifunctional sensors and circuits

A team of researchers led by Dr. Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new form of electronics known as “drawn-on-skin electronics,” allowing multifunctional sensors and circuits to be drawn on the skin with an ink pen.

Pacemakers and other implantable cardiac devices used to monitor and treat arrhythmias and other heart problems have generally had one of two drawbacks – they are made with rigid materials that can’t move to accommodate a beating heart, or they are made from soft materials that can collect only a li…

A medical robotic hand is just one potential application for the rubbery electronics reported by the researchers. (Image courtesy of the researchers) Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of as…

Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute (THI) working with a team of engineers at the University of Houston have reported in Nature Electronics a patch made from fully rubbery electronics that can be placed directly on the heart to collect electrophysiological activity, temperature, heartbeat, and…

The new method can scale and simplify the manufacture of stretchy semiconductors.

Researchers at the University of Houston and colleagues have developed a flexible epicardial patch which can monitor heart function and even administer

Robotics and wearable devices might soon get a little smarter with the addition of a stretchy, wearable synaptic transistor developed by Penn State engineers. The device works like neurons in the brain to send signals to some cells and inhibit others in order to enhance and weaken the devices’ memor…

In work that combines a deep understanding of the biology of soft-bodied animals such as earthworms with advances in materials and electronic technologies, researchers from the United States and China have developed a robotic device containing a stretchable transistor that allows neurological functi…

Wearable electronic human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are an emerging class of devices to facilitate human and machine interactions. Advances in electronics, materials and mechanical designs have offered pathways toward commercial wearable HMI devices. However, existing devices are uncomfortable since…

Wearable human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are important devices that function as direct communication pathways between humans and machines. By sensing the

The manufacturing method produces curvy electronic devices such as wearables, contact lenses, solar cells, and optoelectronics.