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Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon.
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 | The 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 manage the development and testing of the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) system on human subjects, using a brain-controlled interface. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists from Jena University modified conventional hand prostheses in order to reduce phantom pain after an underarm amputation. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists in Germany are examining how three-legged dogs move to help design and develop robots that can adapt in the event of an "injury." The new research looked at walking and running techniques in dogs with fore-limb or hind-limb amputations, using a treadmill and a set of high-tech infra-red cameras. The research is being presented at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Prague on Thursday, July 1, 2010. ...> Full Article |
More than 1,200 American soldiers have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq with missing limbs. To address this growing national need, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are laying the groundwork for a new generation of advanced prosthetic limbs that will be fully integrated with the body and nervous system. As part of the recently approved Department of Defense appropriations bill, WPI's Center for Neuroprosthetics and BioMEMS received a $1.6 million allocation to advance this groundbreaking work.
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A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon.
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 | The artificial lower limbs of double-amputee Olympic hopeful Oscar Pistorius give him a clear and major advantage over his competition, taking 10 seconds or more off what his 400-meter race time would be if his prosthesis behaved like intact limbs. That's the conclusion -- released to the public for the first time -- of human performance experts Peter Weyand of Southern Methodist University and Matthew Bundle of the University of Wyoming. ...> Full Article |
Scientists using a bionic boot found that during walking, the ankle does about three times the work for the same amount of energy compared to isolated muscles
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 | A new prosthetic hand is being tested at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg / Grip function almost like a natural hand ...> Full Article |
There really is something to the phrase "mind over matter." Just ask Dr. Todd Kuiken, researcher from Northwestern University, whose work gives hope to amputees.
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