WGRZ, WKBW, Spectrum News and WHEC report on PocketCare+, a new app developed by UB computer scientists and engineers that will provide a technologically advanced form of contact tracing to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Buffalo Rising reports on PocketCare+, a new app developed by UB researchers that will provide a technologically advanced form of contact tracing to slow the spread of COVID-19. The app uses a smartphone’s Bluetooth technology to monitor the whereabouts of the user.
Engineering 360 covered the UB project led by Ruogang Zhao and Chi Zhou, who are turning artificial manual breathing units, also called Ambu bags, into automated resuscitators to fill COVID-19-related supply chain ventilator shortages.
An article on TechBriefs reports that M. Amin Karami, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is developing technology to make implantable pacemakers battery-free.
The Plymouth Herald in England reports that UB-affiliated startup Buffalo Automation will test unmanned robot water taxis in British seaside town after coronavirus restrictions lift.
Nexus Media News quotes Jun Zhuang, professor of industrial and systems engineering, in a story on how authorities need to be wary of disinformation and malicious claims in times of crisis.
