(Aug 2013) The developing field of prosthetics and digital body control

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants approval to a first-of-its-type government DARPA project —

the mind-controlled prosthetic limb called the DEKA Arm. Impressive.

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Bionics – Lifehand 2 — another first, sensory feel…

High-tech prosthesis recreates the natural dexterity of a human hand

To achieve a close to natural replacement for the lost hand, the user should be provided with the rich sensations that we naturally perceive when grasping or manipulating an object

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mPro + mOrtho — Extreme Prosthetics links

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3-D printed parts, revolution in medicine

Body part printing

and consider… in dev, how to grow a bone in the lab as a replacement body part

from the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering – ‘Epibone’

 

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Published on: Aug 16, 2013