"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way ...

There are also small vibration sensors in the leg for a bit of ... to share some more videos and a few pictures of his robotic prosthetic leg; you can check those out after the break.

“Suddenly, order emerges from chaos,” explained Alberto Comoretto, the study’s first author and a researcher at the ...

By late 2009, testing was underway on the PowerFoot BiOM, the first lower-leg system to use robotics ... governing the prosthetic’s movement. But Herr is working on sensors that can tap into ...

Leg driven by the nervous ... regain their natural walking gait through robotic sensors and pre-determined walking algorithms. However, these prosthetics still don't allow the patient to control ...

Demonstration of the robotic prosthetic ankle. Electromyographic sensors (on calf at left) capture electrical activity generated by muscles when they are flexed. This signal tells the prosthesis ...

The robotic arm is then wired to send and receive signals from those sensors. Now 31, Copeland can identify—with 84.3 percent accuracy and while blindfolded—which of his arm’s prosthetic ...

A revolutionary new robot with no brain that can move faster than a Ferrari “thinks” with its legs. Dutch scientists have ...

One of the most impressive features of the Ability Hand is its integrated pressure sensors ... prosthetic technology. Through the Ability Fund, your tax-deductible donation helps provide a hand or ...

This left him initially at the age of 18 years old to consider a life without the use of his arms or legs, until he got ... even simplistic touch sensors to prosthetic, brain-controlled limbs ...

A revolutionary new robot with no brain that can move faster than a Ferrari “thinks” with its legs. Dutch scientists ... no software, and no sensors. Yet it is still able to move at speed ...