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- Vincent the disabled cat receives new titanium legs Wed, 9 Dec 15, 6:30amIn a experimental procedure, a 3-year-old cat named Vincent has been fitted with rare, high-tech titanium prosthetics that attach directly to the bone of his injured limbs...
- MIT’s FitSocket 3D prints comfortable and affordable prosthetic limbs Wed, 31 Dec 14, 2:00amAs if losing a limb wasn't hard enough for a person, often the task of finding, fitting and affording a prosthetic limb can be almost as excruciating. Enter MIT's FitSocket technology, which uses 3D scanning, 3D printing,...
- 3D printing can create more comfortable and affordable prosthetic limbs Wed, 31 Dec 14, 2:00amAs if losing a limb wasn't hard enough for a person, often the task of finding, fitting and affording a prosthetic limb can be almost as excruciating. With FitSocket, a technology developed by MIT, a better fit is possible...
- VIDEO: Double amputee is fitted with two limbs that he controls with his mind Sat, 20 Dec 14, 5:00amThe future of prosthetics is here after researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory completed a groundbreaking experiment that gave a double amputee the ability to control his prosthetics using only his mind...
- Bionic Titan Arm Wins 2013 James Dyson Award Sat, 9 Nov 13, 9:31amThe Titan Arm is a bionic exoskeleton that helps people recovering from an injury or stroke regain their upper-body strength. It augments the user’s arm strength by 18 kg to reduce fatigue and rebuild muscle, and it comes...
- Powerful Bionic Titan Arm Wins 2013 James Dyson Award Sat, 9 Nov 13, 1:32amThe Titan Arm is a bionic exoskeleton that helps people recovering from an injury or stroke regain their upper-body strength. It augments the user’s arm strength by 18 kg to reduce fatigue and rebuild muscle, and it comes...
- Superhuman Titan Arm Wins This Year’s James Dyson Award Sat, 9 Nov 13, 1:32amTitan Arm is an exoskeleton arm that helps people recovering from an injury or stroke regain their upper-body strength. It augments the user’s arm strength by 18 kg to reduce fatigue and rebuild muscle with a backpack frame...
- i-Limb: Touch Bionics’ Amazing Prosthetic Hand Can Be Controlled Via Smart Phone Thu, 25 Apr 13, 12:30amUK teenager Patrick Kane just became the first person in the country to be fitted with latest version of Touch Bionics’ i-Limb Ultra- a prosthetic hand so advanced that it can be controlled via a smart phone app...
- Japanese Loggerhead Turtle Swims Again With Prosthetic Flippers After Shark Attack Wed, 20 Feb 13, 4:00amA 25-year-old loggerhead turtle that lost her fins to a shark attack received a new pair of prosthetic limbs on Tuesday. Scientists at the Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Japan, designed the new limbs using the latest developments...
- Otherlab Create Lightweight Inflatable Robots That Can Walk on Water Thu, 24 Nov 11, 2:10amOtherlab is working on a new breed of inflatable robots that cast aside the heavy and expensive metal structures that most robots are based on, bringing down their cost and material use while increasing their capabilities...
- Otherlab Creates Cool Inflatable Robots That Can Walk on Water Thu, 24 Nov 11, 2:10amOtherlab is dreaming up the future and in their minds it is made up of robots — inflatable robots, that is. Their two working prototypes, the 15-foot Ant-Roach and their inflatable arm, cast aside the metal-base structures...