{"id":237569,"date":"2026-05-22T03:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-powered-stretchable-computing-patch-can-run-algorithms-directly-on-the-body"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:18:06","slug":"ai-powered-stretchable-computing-patch-can-run-algorithms-directly-on-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-powered-stretchable-computing-patch-can-run-algorithms-directly-on-the-body","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered stretchable computing patch can run algorithms directly on the body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-powered-stretchable-computing-patch-can-run-algorithms-directly-on-the-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new skin-like computing patch developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) can analyze health data using artificial intelligence in an unprecedented way. Unlike today\u2019s wearable devices, it carries out its AI computations directly on the body, in mere milliseconds, without relying on a wireless connection.<\/p>\n<p>While your current smartwatch may be able to track your heart rate or movements, it doesn\u2019t analyze what it finds. The analysis happens elsewhere, after it shuttles data to an external server. In some situations\u2014detecting ventricular fibrillation in the heart, for instance\u2014that few-seconds lag to communicate with the server is too long.<\/p>\n<p>The new device, designed and tested in collaboration with researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, was made possible by the development of manufacturing processes that allow organic electrochemical transistors to be printed onto flexible surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new skin-like computing patch developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) can analyze health data using artificial intelligence in an unprecedented way. Unlike today\u2019s wearable devices, it carries out its AI computations directly on the body, in mere milliseconds, without relying on a wireless connection. While your current [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1495,41,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-health","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237569","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=237569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}