Gizmo Watch

It’s not easy to monitor blood pressure, a high-risk common disease, frequently with that difficult to carry BP apparatus. To make monitoring blood pressure simpler and less cumbersome, MIT engineers have developed a device that loops around the...

Pete Hodgson, the Research, Science and Technology minister of New Zealand, was excited when he had his blood pressure measured by a robot. It won't be long before robots will be doing a host of activities that are normally done by a doctor or...