New tech automatically ‘tunes’ powered prosthetics while walking
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
When amputees receive powered prosthetic legs, the power of the prosthetic limbs needs to be tuned by a prosthetics expert so that a patient can move normally – but the prosthetic often needs repeated re-tuning. Biomedical engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have now developed […]