Human Health Research

A mechanical engineer discusses her recent advances in robotic surgery, including millimeter-scale robots that travel through the bloodstream to deliver treatment.

Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new possibilities for weara

How soft robotics and teleoperation could improve mobility and recovery in patients.

Stanford engineers are testing foods using an approach that combines a three-dimensional mechanical technique and AI to mimic our sensory experience.

Two new biology lab tools will help researchers quickly turn out scores of uniformly sized tissue samples to study many therapies at once.

Researchers at Stanford have designed a spring-assisted actuator – a device that can accomplish dynamic tasks using a fraction of the energy previously required.

For those with stroke, involuntary contractions of the hands and arms often follow. A simple, wearable vibrating glove may offer a more effective treatment.

Researchers at Stanford show that breast cancer cells work together to physically tear through barriers and spread.

With synchronous video from a pair of smartphones, engineers at Stanford have created an open-source motion-capture app that democratizes the science of human movement.

Advances in the 3D printing of living tissue puts within reach the possibility of fabricating whole organs from scratch and implanting them living beings.

By helping researchers choose among thousands of available computational models of mechanical stress on the brain, AI is yielding powerful new insight on traumatic brain injury.

After years of careful development, engineers have created a boot-like exoskeleton that increases walking speed and reduces effort outside of the lab.

A professor of mechanical engineering explains how computational models of Alzheimer’s spread in the brain are providing new information about the disease.

A mechanical engineer creates multifunctional wireless robots to maximize health outcomes and minimize invasiveness of procedures.

By isolating basophils, the rarest white blood cells, scientists aim to design a safer, more accurate allergy test.

“Minimizing energy expenditure has evolutionary advantages,” said one of the researchers. “It allows us to move farther on fewer calories.”

A mechanical engineer develops technologies to propel tiny robots into new terrain inside the human body.

Caitlyn Seim considered herself a technologist from a young age.

The technology, still in its very early stages, doesn’t mimic social touch precisely, but creates instead a “a haptic illusion.”

New research shows that the benefits people could reap from exoskeletons rely heavily on having time to train with the device.