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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The initiative developed the NEST360 newborn tool kit. Once I discovered it, I found that I loved it.”

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

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Our small development kit (housing an FPGA) sat on top of the robot dog guides Hopper, using Opteran See to provide 360 degrees of stabilised vision, and Opteran Sense to sense objects and avoid collisions. The activity served as a dress rehearsal for the flight version, which is scheduled for assembly in the summer of 2022.

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