pharmaphorum July 31, 2025
Phil Taylor

Tech giant Google has developed a new family of sensor–language foundation models that could underpin a coming generation of health and wellness wearable devices.

The SensorLM platform has been trained on 60 million hours of user data and – according to Google – can move the sensor needle from merely providing information on what is occurring on our bodies, to “the crucial context of ‘why’.”

According to a blog post from Google researchers Yuzhe Yang and Kumar Ayush, an example is that a heart rate monitor can detect if there is a sharp increase, but determining the context – for example, an uphill run or a stressful public speaking event – is generally not possible.

“This gap between raw sensor...

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