Innovations
Last Updated: Aug 9
News from The O&P EDGE
- JHU Awarded $34.5M to Test Brain-Controlled MPL 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 to manage the development and testing of the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) system on human subjects, using a brain-controlled interface.
- Sweet Briar Students Developing Multiarticulating Hand
- Oxford to Guide Phantom Limb Pain Treatment
- 74 Amputees Undergo Rehab Using Mobile Phone in Tondo
- Rex Robotic Legs May Help Paralyzed Walk
- Strathclyde Researchers Working on “Green” Sockets
- Wireless Brain Microchip Could Control Limbs
- Kinegen Stream Hydraulic Knee Wins red dot Design Award
- New DEKA Arm Videos Released
- Echelon Foot Tapped for Two Major Awards
- Orthocare’s Compas System Wins Edison Award
- Touch Bionics Wins Queen’s Award
- Prototype Implant Could Lead to Less-Invasive, Longer-Lasting BCIs
- Orthocare, Tibion Win Medical-Device Awards
- Students Win $30K for Socketless Prosthesis
- MIT Student Designs Wheelchair for Developing Nations
- Visible Feedback Ups Brain Signals for Device Control
- Student’s Foot Design is Finalist for Dyson Award
- WPI to Receive $1.6 Million for Neuroprosthetics Research
- Next Generation Microprocessor Knee Demonstrated
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)