Medical Xpress April 2, 2025
When the body moves, it’s harder for existing wearable devices to accurately track heart activity. But University of Missouri researchers found that a starfish’s five-arm shape helps solve this problem.
Inspired by how a starfish flips itself over—shrinking one of its arms and using the others in a coordinated motion to right itself—Sicheng Chen and Zheng Yan from Mizzou’s College of Engineering and collaborators have created a starfish-shaped wearable device that tracks heart health in real time.
Their paper, “Starfish-inspired wearable bioelectronic systems for physiological signal monitoring during motion and real-time heart disease diagnosis,” was published in the journal Science Advances. Other co-authors are Qunle Ouyang, Xuanbo Miao, Zehua Chen and Ganggang Zhao at Mizzou.
Because the starfish-inspired device has...
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