Engineering New Wrists
January 8, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
Biomedical engineers at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) have built an artificial wrist prosthetic. “The new artificial joint works instead with an osseointegrated implant system developed by the Sweden-based company, Integrum AB — one of the partners in this project. An implant is placed into each of the two bones of the forearm — the ulna and radius — and then a wrist-like artificial joint acts as an interface between these two implants and the prosthetic hand. Together, this allows for much more naturalistic movements, with intuitive natural control and sensory feedback.” MORE
Image Credit: Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory/Chalmers University of Technology