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URI students create masks that monitor COVID-19 symptoms

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A team of eight University of Rhode Island students developed a mask that is used to help monitor symptoms of COVID-19. Called...

$250K grant to help URI professor develop ‘smart glove’ for Parkinson’s...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A University of Rhode Island professor has been awarded a $249,977 federal grant to help him continue to develop a "smart...

URI opens library-based AI lab

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Demonstrations of smart technology-powered drones, robot hands and smart textiles for medical use took place at the opening of the Artificial...
CO-FOUNDERS: From left, Patricia Burbank, Kunal Mankodiya and Benjamin Burbank co-founded Modus Tech-Wear LLC, a medical-technology startup in Providence. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Footwear collects health data

What if smart, wearable textiles could help better inform providers of the overall health of their patients? That – and promoting a healthier lifestyle –...
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND students Joshua Harper. left, and James Baez stand next to the smart onesie they created to treat jaundice in infants. / COURTESY URI/JOHN PETERSON

URI students engineer wearable tech

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island biomedical engineering students Joshua Harper, of Maine, and James Baez, of Providence, have created a onesie for newborns that...
HANDS-ON: Jonathan Teoli, owner of Rhode Island Limb Co. in Cranston, works with some of the prosthetics he produces. He designs and fits each device by hand.  / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Prosthetics businesses getting creative to grow ‘tiny’ industry

Jonathan Teoli is the third-generation owner of Rhode Island Limb Co. His grandfather purchased the business decades ago after returning from the Pacific theater...
THE PROP: Kunal Mankodiya shows off his smart textiles, an in-home medical device for people suffering from movement conditions to promote and measure activity.

Kunal Mankodiya, 35 Director/assistant professor — Wearable Biosensing Lab/University of...

What’s the best career advice you’ve received? You need to walk the path by yourself. Others can only shed light on it. Therefore, it is...
KUNAL MANKODIYA, ASSISTANT professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, is shown wearing the watch developed at URI to monitor Parkinson's patients. Mankodiya received a $525,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation that will allow him over five years to continue researching and creating smart clothing. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

URI professor receives $525K grant for smart textiles research

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Kunal Mankodiya, a University of Rhode Island assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering, has won a $525,000...
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