POSTS TAGGED AS prosthetics

Robot’s Fingertip More Sensitive than Human Touch

Bio Tac Robot Skin
It is called “Bio Tac,” and according to bioengineers at the University of Southern California it [MORE]

Winners of the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards

Freedom Portable Driver
Among the 26 winners shown in this piece are a wearable ventilator, the world’s smallest heart-lung machine, [MORE]

Artificial Muscle from Carbon Nanotubes

Carbonnanotubes
Originating from a DARPA project, researchers at the University of Texas (Dallas) Nano Tech Institute have created hollow carbon [MORE]

FIRST RELEASE – Printing a Prosthetic Jaw

Prosthetic Jaw
Last June, biomedical engineers at Hasselt University (Diepenbeek, Belgium) used 3-D printing to fabricate a mandible that was [MORE]

Free Software for Simulating Human Motion

Bioengineers at Stanford have created a simulation program for human motion that is useful for such things as designing [MORE]

Advances in Brain-Machine Interface

Brain Computer Interface
“Shared Control” is the concept that drives brain-computer interfaces.  With a neuro-prosthetic arm, for instance, movement is [MORE]

Robotic Gripper, Not Like a Human Hand

Robotic Gripper
Using an ordinary latex balloon filled with coffee grounds and attached to a robotic arm, researchers from Cornell, [MORE]

Artificial Touch

Fiberoptic Neurophotonics
Under a $5.6m DARPA grant, researchers at Southern Methodist University’s Neurophotonics Research Center are developing fiber optic threads [MORE]

World’s First Bionic Finger

Prodigits Hand
TouchBionics (Livingston, UK and Hilliard, OH) has developed the world’s first bionic finger, called “ProDigits.”  The company also [MORE]

Nerve-Enabled Prosthetics

Nerve-Enabled Prosthesis
Knowing that nerves, formerly connected to a severed arm, continue to sprout in search for new muscle, researchers at [MORE]

Personalized Prosthetics

Nearly all of knee replacements for the one million people world wide who have them each year rely upon the [MORE]