X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
The X-Health.show brings to you brilliant minds behind programming living cells, tech that detects pre-term delivery in seconds, brain-computer interface or apps that employ AI to match you, your disease with the best treatment.
For the eXtra Health of the future.
You’ll meet visionaries from Switzerland who push the boundaries of healthcare.
Engineers who teamed up with doctors, scientists turned CEOs, doctors programming AI-powered apps, researchers who abandoned university labs to improve your health.
You’ll hear stories of promising startups founders and successful serial entrepreneurs.
Patients who imagine a better way.
You’ll
learn about new disease treatments
understand how AI-driven health tech can improve your life
grasp the way founders innovate
or even, get inspired to jumpstart innovation at your company.
Luckily, the X-Health.show is based in Switzerland, the most innovative country in the world according to World Intellectual Property Organization. For the 12th consecutive year. No wonder when the abundance of funds for innovation meets the ability to commercialize the discoveries.
With notable research institutions situated nearby top pharmaceutical companies, there’s more to expect. More medical innovations, break-through femtech, life changing biotech, developments in digital health, genetic engineering, and wearables, such as smart ring, blood pressure measurement on your wrist or ECG in your pyjama.
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X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
Bionic Hand: Dr. Solaiman Shokur, EPFL
You cannot underestimate the emotion when you can feel the warmth of someone’s hand in the hand you do not have.
Or cold in the fingers you have not had for years.
In this episode, you’ll hear about
- how people with an amputated hand, can feel the temperature in their phantom hand
- why you don’t really feel wet or can be tricked into feeling wet when there’s no wetness
- how do you feel the temperature
and surely
- bionic hands
- robotic hands
- neuroprostheses
My guest, Dr. Solaiman Shokur is a neuroengineer and a scientist, a co-founder of a neurotech company working on 'nerve machine interfaces’. He worked on some real cool stuff: brain-computer interfaces – he worked in the same lab with Neuralink CTO and co-founders and he was involved in the mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton featured during the 2014 World Cup. Dr. Shokur moved then into restoring sensory-motor functions, haptics,
and now, with an international team, he works on new bionic technology called MiniTouch. There are three centers involved: Translation Neural Engineering Lab at EPFL led by Prof. Silvestro Micera, Switzerland, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna subsidiary in Pisa, INAIL institute in Bologna. MiniTouch allows a person with an amputated hand to feel hot and cold in their phantom hand.
You may learn more about the lab here:
https://neuro-x.epfl.ch/en/
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