Innovations
Last Updated: Feb 22
News from The O&P EDGE
- Spanish Team Designs Customizable Active Knee-Ankle Orthosis A Spanish team of researchers has developed a customizable active KAO that incorporates robotic and orthopedic technology.
- Canadian Scientist Develops Low-Cost Prosthetic Leg
- Treatment Offers Alternative to Amputation for Patients with Advanced Skin Cancer
- NIH Grant Available for Development of Neuroprostheses
- High School Duo Develops Gait Tracking Software, Wins National Science Prize
- Pilot Study to Begin on Pain Innovation Device
- UW Prosthetic Sensing Array Gives “Feeling” to Prostheses
- UT Designing, Building O&P Devices for Injured Service Members
- FDA, CMS Launch Pilot Program for Voluntary Parallel Review of Medical Devices
- Cadence Biomedical Receives NIH Phase I Award
- Robotic Arm Gets a Helping Hand
- Finalists Announced for 2011 da Vinci Awards
- Japanese Company Developing Prosthetic Hand
- New AFO Helps Wounded Warriors Run
- Bespoke Innovations, Design Student Win 2011 International Design Excellence Awards
- Chemical Cocktail May Aid Limb Regeneration
- Inventor Wins Award for Body-Powered Articulating Prosthetic Hand
- College Students Make Prosthetic Arm for Kindergartener
- West Point Cadets Build Exoskeleton
- Girl Scouts Win Innovation Award for Developing Cost-Effective Prosthetic Hand
Resource Links
- Defense Sciences Office - Revolutionizing Prosthetics
- Futuristic 'liquid wire' invention mimics spider silk with remarkable properties that make it perfect for biorobotics - http://www.mirror.co.uk
- QingDao Unique unveils first-ever prosthetic 3D printer - http://www.3ders.org
- Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)