Innovations
Last Updated: Nov 5
News from The O&P EDGE
- Michigan Tech Researchers Developing a Prosthetic Leg with a Natural Gait A new computer-driven foot that is being developed at Michigan Technological University, in cooperation with a Mayo Clinic scientist, can mimic a natural walk, allowing the foot to walk in circles on a circular treadmill.
- Low-Cost Prosthetic Knee Wins Technological Award
- Low-Cost Plastic Prosthetic Arm Wins Design Contest
- BrainGate Team Wins $1M Prize
- EMG Signals Improve Control of Powered Lower-Limb Prosthesis
- Japanese Company Unveils Motor-Driven AFO
- Industrial Designer Creates Prosthetic Leg for Use in Developing Countries
- UIUC Student Developing an Algorithm to Drive Prosthetic Controllers
- European Company to Develop Robotic Elbow Orthosis
- Mike “Monster” Schultz Wins Popular Science Award for his Versa Foot
- Low-Cost Prosthesis Being Made with 3D Printing, Bamboo
- Scientists Build Promising Material for Osseointegrated Implants
- UA, Partners Testing Smart Socks to Head off Ulcers, Improve Balance in Diabetics
- Researchers Develop Artificial Muscle Computer
- Scientists Discover “Switch” Critical to Wound Healing
- Physicist Invents New Adaptive Silicone Rubber
- New Therapeutics Could Accelerate Wound Healing
- Wireless Brain Sensor Developed at Brown
- Low-Cost Socket Wins MIT $100K Accelerate Contest
- Researchers Present Polyethylene/Carbon Scoliosis Brace
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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)