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little less impossible, strapping them to every surface in a manufacturing plant still isn’t cost-efficient. To leverage machine learning and AI more widely, the hardware that supports it needs to shrink. Andrew Tunnicliffe speaks to Wolfgang Emmerich, CEO at Zühlke UK; Radu Sporea, senior lecturer in semiconductor devices at the University of Surrey; and Song Han, assistant professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about cramming learning capabilities on to single transistors and microcontrollers.


76 All-plastic connectors in the spotlight LEMO


78 The inside story


Neuromonitoring and neuromodulation technologies combine practical tools for patient care with what often seem


like plot points from science fiction, and are on their way to erasing the traditional boundaries between medical devices and pharmaceuticals. The CEOs of two start-ups using new types of electrodes to define the space, Manfred Franke of Neuronoff and Luca Ravagnan of WISE, talk through their approaches to navigating the industry’s newest frontier.


Filtration & fluid control 83 Better together


Microfluidics requires high levels of expertise, so simplifying it would promote its broader use in healthcare and life sciences. Integrated machine learning and AI could allow people who are not experts in physics and engineering to run next-generation diagnostic tests, potentially improving treatment for many diseases, not least cancer. Jim Banks talks convergence with DeepCell co-founders Maddison Masaeli and Mahyar Salek, and Ali Lashkaripour,


a research assistant in Boston University’s Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research (CIDAR) group.


Materials 86 Waste not, want not


The health sector is responsible for an estimated 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions – the vast majority of which originate in the supply chain. One of the easiest ways to start addressing that is to focus on recycling and reusing materials, as the first comprehensive life cycle assessment of reprocessed versus disposed ‘single- use’ devices makes clear. How can OEMs weigh up the pros and cons of recycling and reprocessing, and use this insight to make their own work more sustainable? Monica Karpinski finds out.


91 Custom-made medical alloys at a small scale Sandvik Materials Technology


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