{"id":108086,"date":"2020-06-02T19:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/smart-textiles-made-possible-by-flexible-transmission-lines"},"modified":"2020-06-02T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:44:29","slug":"smart-textiles-made-possible-by-flexible-transmission-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/smart-textiles-made-possible-by-flexible-transmission-lines","title":{"rendered":"Smart textiles made possible by flexible transmission lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-textiles-made-possible-by-flexible-transmission-lines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPFL researchers have developed electronic fibers that, when embedded in textiles, can be used to collect data about our bodies by measuring fabric deformation. Their technology employs flexible transmission lines and offers a host of applications, including in the medical industry.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Fabien Sorin and doctoral assistant Andreas Leber, at the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices (FIMAP) in EPFL\u2019s School of Engineering, have developed a technology that can be used to detect a body\u2019s movements\u2014and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine clothing or hospital bed sheets capable of monitoring your breathing and physical gestures, or AI-powered textiles that allow humans to interact more safely and intuitively with robots\u201d says Leber. \u201cThe flexible transmission lines that we\u2019ve developed can do all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL researchers have developed electronic fibers that, when embedded in textiles, can be used to collect data about our bodies by measuring fabric deformation. Their technology employs flexible transmission lines and offers a host of applications, including in the medical industry. Professor Fabien Sorin and doctoral assistant Andreas Leber, at the Laboratory of Photonic Materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}