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With the developments of medical artificial intelligence (AI), meta-data analysis, intelligence-aided drug design and discovery, surgical robots and image-navigated precision treatments, intelligent medicine (IM) as a new era evolved from ancient medicine and biomedical medicine, has become an emerging topic and important criteria for clinical applications. It is fully characterized by fundamental research-driven, new-generation technique-directed as well as state-of-the-art paradigms for advanced disease diagnosis and therapy leading to an even broader future of modern medicine. As a fundamental subject and also a practice-oriented field, intelligent medicine is highly trans-disciplinary and cross-developed, which has emerged the knowledge of modern medicine, basic sciences and engineering. Basically, intelligent medicine has three domains of intelligent biomaterials, intelligent devices and intelligent techniques. Intelligent biomaterials derive from traditional biomedical materials, and currently are endowed with multiple functionalities for medical uses. For example, micro-/nanorobots, smart responsive biomaterials and digital drugs are representative intelligent biomaterials which have been already commercialized and applied to clinical uses. Intelligent devices, such as surgical robots, rehabilitation robots and medical powered exoskeleton, are an important majority in the family of intelligent medicine. Intelligent biomaterials and intelligent devices are more and more closely integrated with each other especially on the occasions of intelligence acquisition, remote transmission, AI-aided analysis and management. In comparison, intelligent techniques are internalized in the former two domains and are playing a critical role in the development of intelligent medicine. Representative intelligent techniques of telemedicine, image-navigated surgery, virtual/augmented reality and AI-assisted image analysis for early-stage disease assessments have been employed in nowadays clinical operations which to a large extent relieved medical labors. In the past decades, China has been in the leading groups compared to international colleagues in the arena of intelligent medicine, and a series of eminent research has been clinically translated for practical uses in China. For instance, the first 5G-aided remote surgery has been realized in Fujian Province in January 2019, which for the first time validated their applicability for human uses. The surgical robots have found China as the most vigorous market, and more than 10 famous Chinese companies are developing versatile surgical robots for both Chinese people and people all over the world. China also applied AI techniques to new drug developments especially in early 2020 when COVID-19 epidemic roared, and several active molecules and drug motifs have been discovered for early-stage COVID-19 screening and treatments. Based on the significance of intelligent medicine and its rapid developments in both basic research and industrials, this review summarized the comprehensive viewpoints of the Y6 Xiangshan Science Conferences titled with Fundamental Principles and Key Technologies of Intelligent Medicine, and gave an in-depth discussion on main perspectives of future developments of the integration of biomaterial and devices, the integration of bioinformatics and medical hardware, and the synergy of biotechnology and intelligence information. It is expected that this featuring article will further promote intelligent medicine to an even broader community not only for scientists but also for industrials, and in the long run embrace a perspective future for its blooming and rich contributions in China in the coming 5 years. © 2023 Chinese Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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Since the inception of Internet of Things (IoT) and AI (Artificial Intelligence), there has been a vast development in modern technology. There is no doubt IoT, and AI have been universal dais for Internet-associated smart and intelligent devices which is touted to boost supply chain integration. This paper aims to review the increased role and importance of IoT and artificial intelligence in supply chain management during the Covid pandemic. Recently we all have witnessed that due to the covid-19 the whole world has been under locked down and witnessing a great problem for buying the daily essentials as social distancing must be maintained. Covid has disrupted the production supply chain, finance, and markets. There is an outpouring in the usage of online shopping making pressure to enhance process efficiency for future needs. The advent of industry 4.0 has given rise to the implementation of modern technologies into Supply Chain Management. The use of IoT and AI makes the shopping experience much better, more user-friendly, with alleviated customer service with end-to-end supply chain performance, or improved supply chain availability, clarity, and authenticity during the pandemic. The chapter focuses on the impact of IoT and AI on overall supply chain and how the technologies are helping to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain system. © 2021 IEEE.
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This paper is mainly about the evolving role of robotics in all domains of lives especially during the last year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. It mainly focuses on the study that how various intelligent devices stayed involved during the fight the whole world went through. It is intended from the current research to emphasize more on the production and availability of such kinds of devices for the near and distant future. © 2021 IEEE.