News

URI students invent new medical-technology mask to better combat COVID - ABC6 in Sept 2020

Smart gloves to screen Parkinson’s - NBC Channel 10, releasing in Oct 2019

The Artificial Intelligence Lab at URI, NBC Channel 10, 10/2/2018

Wearable Technology Showcase, ABC Channel 6, 01/2018

Health Check: URI researchers developing smart textiles, NBC Channel 10, 4/26/2017.

URI Engineering develops prosthetic hands for amputees in Colombia, ABC Channel 6, 3/24/2017.

URI’s Groundbreaking Research - Smart Gloves for Parkinson’s Disease, ABC Channel 6, Oct 20, 2016

“Wearable sensors create person-centered healthcare”––TechTalk Central, Athens, Greece

URI Researchers Bringing Innovations from Lab Bench to Market, URI’s Research Magazine - Momentum, Jul 2025

New URI council focuses on the future of textiles in southern New England, invites participation, Rhody Today, Nov 25, 2024.

URI-led team nets $500K to develop wearable tech for stroke survivors, Providence Business News, Oct 29, 2024

URI, UMass Chan Medical School researchers developing high-tech armband to help people with opioid-use disorder, Rhody Today, Oct 2023

AI-powered arm band to detect opioid use disorder, withdrawals in development at UMass Chan, URI, Aug 8, 2023

How Smart is Your T-Shirt?, Aug, 2023

Champlin Foundation grant funds state-of-the-art knitting machine, Jan 4, 2023

URI undergraduates develop Napnea system to monitor infant breathing, Nov 24, 2021

URI faculty, staff answer state's call for help in COVID-19 fight, The Westerly Sun, Apr 12, 2020

URI students create 'smart mask' to detect Covid-19 symptoms - Rhose Island Inno, Sept 22, 2020 

URI professor gets $250K grant for smart glove that could help patients with Parkinson’s - The Westerly Sun, 11/1/2019

Clothing you can feel good about at URI – Providence Journal, 1/11/2018

Wearable Tech – Sky is the limit. - URI Momentum: Science & Innovation, Fall 2017 ISSUE.

Wearables still haven't solved the problems of skin science, but new ideas are coming - Wareable, Nov 2017

URI professor receives $525K grant for smart textiles research - Providence Business News, 4/13/2017.

URI engineering students making prosthetic arms, hands for Colombian amputees - Providence Business News, Mar 29, 2017.

URI researchers receive pilot project funding to target environmental, behavioral health issues - Providence Business News, Mar 17, 2017.

Mankodiya making smart textiles - Providence Business News, Feb 3, 2017.

URI biomedical engineering professor creating smart gloves to monitor Parkinson’s disease patients - Rhode Island Medical Journal, November 2016 ISSUE.

Brainstorming at URI: Student teams build innovative, health-related products, Providence Journal, Oct 2016

Can Med-Tech Grow Here?, Providence Business News, News, RI

URI Hosting Internet of Things Hackathon, Providence Business News, RI

Professor makes noise with at-home speech therapy, The Good Five Cent Cigar, RI

“URI engineering students develop wristband to measure tremors in PD” – 1) Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2) Taunton Daily Gazette, 3) Providence Business News, May 2015.