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Philips Wins Thirty-Three Point Seven Million-Dollar US Grant for Remote Robotic Stroke Care

Philips has received a thirty-three point seven million-dollar development grant from the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop artificial intelligence-enabled robotic technologies for remote stroke intervention.
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