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Imagine if one (or both) of your feet couldn’t conform to uneven walking surfaces, or flex to spring you forward with each step. That’s what it’s like for most people who have prosthetic feet, although an experimental new foot could change that.Continu… Continue reading Better-performing prosthetic foot replicates the bones of the real thing
Marvel’s “Bucky” Barnes, Mad Max: Fury Road’s Furiosa, and Gazelle from the Kingsman franchise. What do these fictional movie characters have in common? Bionic limbs they’re able to wield with great precision. Unfortunately, real life hasn’t caught up … Continue reading Nervous-system-driven prostheses give amputees greater control
We don’t often think of medicine and engineering as being related concepts, and most of the time, they aren’t. But there’s a point where medicine alone may not be enough …read more Continue reading Better Living Through Biomedical Engineering
The world is edging closer to creating fully functional prosthetic limbs, with the first clinical bionic attachment connected directly to the nervous and skeletal systems, plus artificial intelligence, restoring around 80% of daily use to the user’s ha… Continue reading Groundbreaking bionic hand restores quality of life to amputee
If the inner socket of a prosthetic leg doesn’t conform to the contours of the user’s leg stump, considerable pain and even skin ulcers may result. A new prosthesis should help keep that from happening, by automatically pumping up its socket to maintai… Continue reading Prosthetic leg auto-inflates its socket to maintain optimum fit
Currently, almost all powered prosthetic hands utilize electrodes that detect the user’s muscle impulses and convert them into hand movements. A new system which is in development, however, should reportedly work better by utilizing ultrasound.Continue… Continue reading SOMA system will control prosthetic hand via ultrasound, not electrodes
Whether you want to build a computer interface device, or control a prosthetic hand, having some idea of a user’s finger movements can be useful. The OpenMuscle finger tracking sensor …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Finger Tracking Via Muscle Sensors
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new type of neural implant that combines stem cells with electronics and has the potential to help amputees or those who’ve lost the use of their limbs.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, Scien… Continue reading Human stem cells used to create new type of biohybrid neural implant
The possibility of a table saw accident is low, but never zero — and [Nerdforge] has lost a finger to this ever-useful but dangerous contraption. For a right-handed person, losing …read more Continue reading Missing Finger Gets A Simple Yet Fancy Replacement
Although great advances are occurring in the field of powered prosthetics, the devices typically still require bulky, heavy batteries. Scientists at Rice University are trying to change that, by creating a pneumatic “extra limb” that’s powered by the w… Continue reading Experimental system uses footsteps to power pneumatic prostheses