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Amir Bein checks a batch of human organ chips in the lab.

Wyss Institute to accelerate drug testing for COVID treatment

Multicenter collaboration aims to rapidly identify FDA-approved drugs that can prevent or treat COVID-19 infections

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DateJune 16, 2020June 16, 2020

At a Kennedy School Forum, “The Internet, Invisible Aircraft & Robots: The Future of Defense Is Now,” Steven H. Walker (right), acting director of DARPA, and Michael Sulmeyer, director of the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center, discussed DARPA's mission to stay on the cutting edge of military technology.

Robots, exoskeletons, and invisible planes

This government agency is all about endlessly improving military technology

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DateMarch 9, 2017

“While the idea of a wearable robot is not new, our design approach certainly is,” said Wyss Institute core faculty member Conor Walsh. The smart suit fits under clothing and could help soldiers walk farther, tire less easily, and carry heavy loads more safely.

The $3 million suit

Wyss Institute wins DARPA grant to further develop its Soft Exosuit

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DateSeptember 11, 2014October 6, 2016

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study hosted a symposium that examined recent advances in “smart clothes.” Speakers at the event were experts in biology, design, materials science, engineering, medicine, and nanotechnology, including Babak Parviz (photo 2), the developer of Google eyewear.

Technically, you are what you wear

Symposium touts ‘smart clothes’ that do far more than just cover

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DateNovember 18, 2013April 8, 2019

At the Northeast Robotics Colloquium, Panagiotis Polygerinos (left), a postdoc fellow at the Wyss Institute, demonstrated a robotic hand, which can provide more grip and strength than a normal hand would (photo 1). SEAS postdoc Sawyer B. Fuller displayed a "robotic insect" (photo 2). Paul Loschak, an SEAS grad student, demonstrated his cardiac imaging catheter (photo 3).

Robots to the rescue

Conference showcases new machines designed to improve everyday life

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DateOctober 8, 2013

The new wearable system would be made from soft, stretchable, assistive devices, which would help improve physical endurance for soldiers in the field.

Smart suit improves physical endurance

Harvard’s Wyss Institute receives $2.6M from DARPA to develop suit

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DateJuly 19, 2012October 6, 2016

When the “body” of the robot is inflated, it arches; when the “legs” are inflated, the robot stands up. Sequential pressurization and depressurization of the legs allows the robot to walk to a barrier (a glass plate). Deflation of the body decreases the height of the robot, and a different sequence of actuation of the legs gives it a kind of undulatory motion, and allows it to wiggle under the barrier. Once on the other side, re-inflation of the body allows it to resume its walk.

Soft-bots

Harvard professor’s work challenges traditional image of robotics

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DateDecember 14, 2011March 18, 2019

The $12.3 million grant awarded to the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard will be used to develop a treatment for sepsis, a major cause of injury and death among combat-injured soldiers in the field. File photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

Wyss Institute project targets sepsis

Awarded $12.3M grant to develop treatment for fatal infection

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DateOctober 7, 2011May 6, 2019