Zepp Health Corp, formerly Huami, announced earlier this week that it is investing 2.4 million US Dollars to lead the 6.5 million US Dollars Series A round of funding for the development of MRI and robotics technology, which would help improve medical diagnosis.

According to a report, the investment will enable physicians to diagnose brain injury better and even help treat neurological diseases under live imaging. The Chinese consumer electronics maker will be investing in neuro42, who has an exclusive worldwide license of the low field MR imaging technology. Abhita Batra, Co-Founder and CSO of neuro42, stated that “We are pleased to have Zepp Health’s support as we revolutionize the way physicians identify and treat neurological diseases and injuries. We believe this partnership will create a compelling and sustainable value for our shareholders.”

Notably, neuro42 is Zepp Health’s third investment in new companies to develop disruptive medical imaging technologies. Recently, Zepp Health had invested in Promaxo as well, which focuses on developing office based MRI technology. Zepp Health’s Chief Operating Officer Mike Yeung also added that “Zepp Health is focused on connecting health with technology, and neuro42 is disrupting the location, applications and costs of medical imaging, which will generate tremendous benefits to healthcare systems worldwide.”

As per another executive, the company has become a global leader in consumer health technology and that these partnerships with diagnostic healthcare technologies would open up new financial and market opportunities as well to expand its business into industrial medical technology.

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Huami’s Future of Tech event wasn’t only about its new operating system and chipset alone. The company which is best known for its Amazfit brand of smartwatches also took the chance to show that it is expanding its portfolio into other areas of health tech with the unveiling of its upcoming MRI Scanner which it says will be the world’s first portable scanner.

An MRI Scanner is a big diagnosis machine that takes up significant space in hospitals and usually has its own special room. They also can’t be moved around, though that may soon change as Huami says that its MRI scanner will be the world’s first portable one.

According to the manufacturer, the scanner has a height of 1.5 meters, occupies an area of less than 2m², and weighs less than 800 kilograms. The lightest MRI scanner weighs about 6.8 tons while heavier models weigh as much as 37 tons. They also take up as much as 35m² of space and are as high as 2.5 meters.

Huami says its MRI scanner doesn’t need a specially shielded room which reduces the cost of installation and has an average power consumption of 1kW compared to current scanners that consume between 50kW to 120kW. The MRI scanner also boasts high-quality imaging, and when compared to traditional MRIs, there is a difference of about 300 in the signal-to-noise ratio.

We do not know when the MRI Scanner will be available and how much it will cost but we expect it to be cheaper than a lot of the traditional models.

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