Empatica has announced its new smart watch, EmbracePlus, built in partnership with TRISH, the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, that will be the first wearable to monitor the health of the astronaut crew on the first manned mission to Mars, the company said.
NASA´s Human Research Program partners with external entities to develop new approaches that can help reduce the risk to humans on long exploration missions. One such entity is TRISH, who chose Empatica to develop EmbracePlus.
EmbracePlus has been designed from the ground-up as a space-ready device suitable for health monitoring during deep space missions. EmbracePlus can support longitudinal diagnostics, giving astronauts actionable insights into their health without the need of wearing invasive instrumentation.
Empatica, Inc. is an MIT spin-off, with offices in Boston, Milan, and South Korea. Empatica launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to create the first medical smart watch to detect seizures, Embrace. Today, Embrace is sold both to individuals for seizure alerts and to researchers who use its data on sleep, activity, stress, and seizures to develop improved treatments for people with different kinds of medical needs.
