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Guardian Angels: People behind the project

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This lecture discusses the Flagship Initiative, Guardian Angels, aiming to provide intelligent, autonomous systems to assist people in various complex situations throughout their lives. The project focuses on developing zero-power requirement tools for health support, environmental monitoring, and emotional applications, addressing challenges in energy-efficient computing, low-power sensing, bio-inspired energy scavenging, and human-machine interfaces.

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