Core Concepts
Artificial olfactory systems show promise in disease detection and food spoilage monitoring.
Stats
"The main improvement is they have implemented some computation on the chip. This is extremely useful." - Debajit Saha, PhD
"For applications like food safety, where you need to make recurring measurements, less energy consumption is good." - Debajit Saha, PhD
Quotes
"In order for the AOS to be applied to various non-plugged devices such as mobile phones, small size and excellent energy efficiency are essential." - Jong-Ho Lee, PhD
"The biological olfactory system is still superior. That's why at the airport, you still see dogs, not devices, to test for explosives and drugs." - Debajit Saha, PhD
"There’s an open question of how to make chemical sensing more robust, reliable, and sensitive. Our approach is to hijack the biological brain to do the job for us." - Debajit Saha, PhD