Damion Dooley

This was touched on in the OBI call. A thought is that it would be best to group devices by their functionality. One could also define "regulated device" , "regulated...

I am following up with COB about defining "device" there, and OBI will then import this new term.

In this definition we assume devices are made of processed material, not natural artifacts, so we involve artifactual function rather than biological function, but align with a general BFO function...

It seems wise to have a generic functional hierarchy of devices, and place more specific devices under that. It would be nice to have a "medical device" class that could...

Yay! `**label: device**` `**definition:** A processed material entity which is designed to perform a function.` `**example of usage:** A whole device like an engine; a component like a bolt.` `**comment**:...

About human - my bad, right you are! And I see that robot counts as device. Given that "capable of/ capable of part of/ enables" can connect devices including robots...

@bpeters42 I think I understand now. RO does have that connect between materials (including catalysts and devices) and processes (and these OPs have inverses. "utilizes device" has been deprecated once...

The "measures" discussion has been moved to: https://github.com/oborel/obo-relations/issues/658

Sounds good. It will require promoting many subclasses of OBI device up to COB device subclasses since the OBI one has been the catch-all so far. E.g. "apron" and "container"...

OBI curation team suggests shortcutting "chemical entity" and placing atom etc. directly under material entity. This is in line with COB strategy until ChEBI aligns upper level more closely with...