TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES
ROBOTICS
- Surgical robotics
- Rehabilitation engineering
- Mobile robotics
MATERIALS
- Biomaterials
- Prostheses
- Bioabsorbents
- Smart textiles
- Nanotechnology
- Characterization
BIOMECHANICS
- Modelling of human movement
- Dynamic walking active orthoses
INSTRUMENTATION
- Biomedical signal processing
- Electronics
- Clinical equipment
SENSORS
- Wearables
- IoT
- Social media
- Biosensors
OPTICS
- Biophotonics
- Physiological optics
- Ophthalmic optics
- Visual optics
DIGITAL HEALTH
- Big data
- Bioinformatics
- Cybersecurity
- Mobile Health
- Computer graphics
- Serious games
AREAS OF APPLICATION
SPORT
- Injury prevention
- Performance improvement
- Healthy lifestyle
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- Serious games
- Visualization of data and 3D modelling
- Atomical reconstruction
- Simulation
ROBOTICS & VISION
- Robotics and surgery
- Infrastructures
- Assistive robotics
REHABILITATION
- Physical and cognitive virtual rehabilitation
- Sight, speech, hearing devices for mobility
- Fixation devices robotics
PERSONALIZED HEALTH
- Illness prevention
- Diagnosis
- Treatments
- Patient care
ACTIVE AND ASSISTED LIVING
- Connected health
- Data compaction and knowledge extraction
- eHealth
- Assistance for the elderly
APPLICATION SECTORS
PEOPLE
PHARMACY
ELECTRONICS
COSMETICS
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
RELATED PROJECTS
- The Radio Frequency Identification and Flexible Electronics (RFLEX) group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is participating in ETEXHEALTH. The project is focused on finding solutions based on the application of electronic textile sensors (e-textile) to monitor biometric variables of the human body and the evolution of diseases in a minimally invasive way.
- An international consortium of universities, hospitals and companies, led by the Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development (CD6) at the UPC, is developing new technologies based on light and artificial intelligence to improve the diagnosis of various diseases.
- Participants in the HybridNeuro project include researchers from the group BIOART, which is part of the CREB of the UPC. The project is designed to establish a new way of analysing the motor system and human musculoskeletal movements, and the transfer of academic research to clinical practice and industry.
- Every year, over four million patients acquire an infection associated with a hospital stay, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organisation. The data indicate that the impact of these infections has led to direct or indirect mortality of 137,000 patients and a cost of seven billion euros annually.
