iRobot's CEO Colin Angle welcomes robot hackers
In the wide-ranging Wired Interview: iRobot CEO Colin Angle, he explains his interest in robots for healthcare and why iRobot makes their robots ‘hackable’.
In the wide-ranging Wired Interview: iRobot CEO Colin Angle, he explains his interest in robots for healthcare and why iRobot makes their robots ‘hackable’.
“…it does seem inevitable that at some point in time telehealth will take hold as the current system of care continues to spiral in a chaotic unsustainable trajectory. Something has to change, something will change and the technologies discussed at this… Read moreTeleHealth Still Waiting…
The US Patent Office has awarded a patent to RNK Products for its ‘step-ON’ telehealth weight scale. The patent covers a means of turning on the battery operated scale and automatically taking a weight measurement just by stepping on the… Read moreRNK Telehealth Weight Scale awarded patent
[Editor Donna will be reflecting on last week’s Mobile Health Expo in a series of articles starting here. The MHE consisted of six major keynotes, 60 breakout sessions plus a small expo floor and other ‘scenarios’ – plus Las Vegas itself. Donna moderated six sessions plus interviewed and spoke with numerous key figures in the industry. The long days—plus, amazingly zero hotel connectivity—meant she wound up not filing during the conference, which was just as well as no one person could have covered it all. This is her POV snapshot.]
MHE confirmed for me the fast maturing of mobile health—in a less than two year time frame. By ‘maturing’ I mean interest moving away from prototypes, ‘wowza’ gizmos not-yet-in-market and large doses of lofty system theory, to real-world products and services that have business models and are finding their markets plus partners. The emphasis was on case studies and applications for products in market, not on ‘what ifs’ or endless discussions of products needing FDA approval and financing to get into the market—and some other key indicators like…