POSTS TAGGED AS prosthetics

Advice from Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen Riding the iBOt Mobility System
It has been nine years since Dean Kamen spoke so inspiringly at our MedicalAutomation [MORE]

3-D Printing in the O.R.

3D Printing of Implants
Not long ago, surgeons in Sweden implanted a 3-D printed mandible in an 85 year old woman’s [MORE]

Robotic Ankle with Ground Scanning Camera

Prosthetic Ankle
Engineers at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) have developed a prosthetic foot and ankle with a ground scanning camera [MORE]

Mind-Controlled Robotic Prosthetics

Robotic Prosthesis
Be sure to watch the video in this piece. It shows a man using a robotic arm which is [MORE]

NIH’s 3-D Print Exchange

NIH 3-D Pring Exchange
The National Institutes of Health has created a downloadable library of 3-D printable models and the means [MORE]

The $1,000 Advanced Prosthetic Hand

Dextrus Hand
Workable prosthetic hands now exist, but cost up to $100,000.  In a classic example of “building a better [MORE]

New Materials: New Medical Solutions

New medical technology owes much to materials science, as this piece illustrates with liquid crystal polymers for artificial muscles, and [MORE]

Robotic Prosthetics

Bertolt Meyer Bionic Hand
Here’s a question we don’t hear every day:  “Would we be happy if a struggling concert [MORE]

Piezoelectric Skin

Piezoelectric Taxels
By creating arrays of thousands of piezotronic transistors with zinc oxide nanowires embedded in a polymer, engineers [MORE]

Biomedical Material Based on Squid Beak

Squid Beak
Before he retired from the US Senate, Wisconsin’s William Proxmire made a point of handing out “Golden Fleece” awards [MORE]

Thought-Controlled Robotic Limbs Here and Now

Thought Controlled Robotic Limbs
“The operation will consist of placing neural and muscular electrodes on the patient’s stumps, as well [MORE]

Joining 3-D Imaging and Custom Prosthetics

Stanmore Scupltor
Terrible experiences in war sometimes bring medical breakthroughs, as is the case with the world’s first robotic operation [MORE]

Smart Phone Adjustable Prosthetics

Adjustable Prosthetics
Suppose that a prosthetic ankle impinges on a proper gait; what to do?  Until now, patients would go [MORE]

Robotic/Bionic Prosthetic

iWALK
According to this piece, “iWalk (Bedford, MA) has created a system that is the world’s first proven bionic intervention that [MORE]