Tag Archives: smart prosthetics

New advances in prosthetic limbs

Prosthetics are becoming more and more sophisticated in the range of capabilities offered. They are designed to fill the gap left by an accident or a disease leading to a loss of functionality of a limb or other part of the body. One of the most difficult challenge is how …

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3D printing slash the cost of prosthetics

The cost of a prosthetic limb may well approach and exceed 100,000$, depending on the sophistication. Additionally, customising a prosthetic limb requires several visits with a specialised doctor and follow up visits to make sure the limb fits as it should and to learn using it. Moreover, the cost of …

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Human Machine Symbioses

MIT has just announced the establishment of a new research centre, the Lisa Yang Centre for Bionics,  focussing on the fusion of  human body and advanced technology aiming at overcoming disabilities. This includes use of exoskeletons and brain computer interfaces. The centre start with an initial funding of 24 M$ …

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SAS Delphi results – Augmented Humans

Area 3- Augmented Humans Bio-engineering and smart materials are converging in creating implants that can monitor life functions and expand life functionality, like eye implants first designed to recover sight might eventually provide 10x sight capability and extend human sight in the ultraviolet/infrared range (and beyond). DNA and RNA engineering …

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Transhumanism: Evolving the Human Body III

2. Enhanced Sensing A lot of research is ongoing to meet the needs of impaired people who lost completely or partially some of their sense capabilities, be it hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting (the order reflects both the investment and the results obtained so far). Most of the results …

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Human in the loop

Exoskeletons have been around for quite a while, originally aimed at augmenting soldiers capability (decreasing fatigue and helping in carrying heavy loads) and then progressively used to help patient with walking deficit, paralyses and during the rehab. Current exoskeletons are good but not as much as designers would have thought: …

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