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Modoo: Reducing stillbirth risk with fetal heart monitoring wearable

  • China
  • 5 min read
  • Sep 01, 2020
  • By Li Yuan

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Weighing just 15g, the world’s smallest wearable “patch” with passive fetal monitoring technology by Modoo seeks to offer a safer alternative to ultrasound devices

In 2014, Ma Jiliang had heartbreaking news that a close friend had lost her baby just two days before she was due to give birth because of over anxiety. “It shattered a family’s hopes and dreams which had been building up for months before the expected birth," said Ma, CEO and founder of Modoo, “I myself still feel sad just thinking about it.”
The then 25-year-old industrial and systems engineering graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison was working at AI wearables leader Mobvoi in Beijing when he got the news. He immediately began searching for products in the market that could h...

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