Cornerstone Robotics bags $70M Series C funding
Surgical robotics maker Cornerstone Robotics from Hong Kong has raised over $70 million in a Series C funding round led by EQT. It also received additional investment from the Hong Kong government's Innovation and Technology Venture Fund.
The company, established in 2019, will use its fresh funds to expand into key global markets in Europe and...
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Tongren Hospital have developed a foundational AI model for automated eye disease diagnosis.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The generative AI model, VisionFM, was pre-trained on a large ophthalmic data cohort containing 3.4 million images from over 500,000 individuals worldwide. The pre-training dataset covers eight eye imaging modalities,...
Back-to-back news over the past few years since the recent pandemic reported on the aggressive global expansion of South Korean companies in the medical imaging AI space.
From securing regulatory approvals to closing national and regional-scale distribution and partnerships, these innovators (such as Lunit, VUNO, and Coreline Soft) seemed to have convinced health systems worldwide of the...
South Korean wearable robot heads to US
WIRobotics, a robotics manufacturer from South Korea, is set to launch its wearable gait assistance robot in the United States.
Called WIM (We Innovate Mobility), the wearable exoskeleton, launched last year, features different modes: assist, resist, hike, and slow walk. It comes with a companion mobile application that provides analysis of gait, including...
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new analytical tool offering a new approach to analysing brain activity.
The Brain-JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) model identifies brain regions and how they function individually and dynamically with other regions. It also breaks down complex patterns of brain activity into smaller pieces so they can be...
2024 saw the rise of many generative AI applications in various industries, including healthcare, driving work and operational efficiencies like never before.
It is also one of the technology solutions that came out of an accelerator programme by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Interestingly, the clinical AI copilot might have been...
Five digital health startups recently graduated from the accelerator programme of the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Started as a hackathon event, the NUS Medicine Digital Advanced Technology Accelerator (DATA) supports startups to quickly scale their solutions for improving patient outcomes and clinician productivity.
"It's truly exciting...
An AI startup supported by conglomerate SK Group has introduced what could be the first pharmacy-specific platform powered by generative AI in South Korea.
Intended for use by professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, including researchers and pharmacists, the search platform called Cheiron is the flagship AI solution by PhynX Lab, a Silicon Valley-based venture under SK Networks.
HOW IT...
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, announced it is collaborating with Google Cloud to enhance its Suki Assistant tool using Google's Vertex AI platform.
Google's Vertex AI is a search engine that allows organizations to build their own generative AI-enabled search engines. It enables companies to search patient data, including clinical sources like FHIR data and clinical notes....
The University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Dentistry has launched a community-based programme to detect oral health diseases among the elderly using mobile AI.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The Dental AI Community Care Project features an AI-powered mobile application for detecting gum inflammation. It will train community volunteers, comprising dental students and community residents, to provide personalised...
