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Home > News > Body mechanics

Body mechanics

Berkeley Engineer Fall 2014
November 1, 2014
This article appeared in Berkeley Engineer magazine, Fall 2014
  • In this issue

    Features

    Freedom phones

    Body mechanics

    Where vision meets know-how

    Dean’s Word

    Upfront

    • Launching ‘dev eng’
    • The big picture: Averaging Internet images
    • Smarter stethoscopes
    • Q+A with Grace O’Connell
    • STEM pipeline: Girls in Engineering
    • Comments

    Breakthroughs

    • Great optics: Harnessing light for circuitry 
    • Sight for sore eyes: Vision-correcting display technology
    • Rejuvenating old muscles
    • Evolutionary algorithms
    • Herding cells with electricity

    Alumni notes

    • Smart spoons
    • Measuring DNA health
    • Farewell

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Berkeley engineers are building better bodies, one part at a time. Working across fields and disciplines, researchers are developing solutions ranging from early disease detection to brain implants and bionic-like exoskeletons. These advances hold the potential to improve  quality of life for millions of people. Here is a rundown of a few of the most notable body hacks that have come out of Berkeley Engineering’s labs in recent years. Click on an icon below to learn more.

BMI reflexBMI reflex

Deployable diagnosticsDeployable diagnostics

Stent manStent man

Finding faultFinding fault

High resolutionHigh resolution

Spine spaceSpine space

ExoskeletonWearable robots

Second skinSecond skin 

Illustration by Jason Lee

Topics: Bioengineering, Electrical engineering, Health, Materials science, Mechanical engineering
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