UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ENGINEERS HELP DEVELOP MOTORIZED PROSTHETIC ARM THAT CAN SENSE TOUCH, MOVE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS Keven Walgamott had a good “feeling” about picking up the egg without crushin... Read more
About 75% of amputees exhibit mobility of their phantom limb. Using this information, in collaboration with physicians, researchers from CNRS, Aix-Marseille University and Sorbonne Universit... Read more
We’ve tried a new approach, moving the focus from muscles to the nervous system. This means that our technology can detect and decode signals more clearly, opening up the possibility of robo... Read more
DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program delivers on goal of providing advanced prosthetic upper limb with near-natural control mechanisms to amputees DARPA launched the Revolutionizing P... Read more
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Kendall had one request for the Washington University in St. Louis students building her a robotic prosthetic arm: Make it pink. Kendall Gretsch, Henry Lather and Kr... Read more
She hopes the metric will become a commonly used, standard tool in the field A new validated and reliable measure of how well an adult amputee is able to perform everyday tasks with a prosth... Read more
Two undergraduate students from Toronto’s Ryerson University have created a prosthetic arm that is controlled by its wearer’s brain signals, and powered by compressed air. Not on... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers are working on bringing the sense of touch to prosthetics Although modern prosthetic devices are more lifelike and easier for amputees to control than ever be... Read more
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract for up to $34.5 million to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., to... Read more