Category: prosthetic

New prosthetic legs let amputees feel their foot and knee in real-time

Post author By Randall
Post date September 9, 2019
Categories In amputee, bluetooth, electrical stimulation, electrodes, eth zurich, feedback, gear, leg, medicine, nerve, neural, ossur, prosthesis, prosthetic, Robots, sensors, sensory, stimulation, Tech, tomorrow, touch

[ad_1] The researchers worked with two patients with above-the-knee, or transfemoral, amputations. They used an Össur prosthetic leg, which comes with a microprocessor and an angle sensor in the knee joint, IEEE Spectrum explains. The team then added an insole with seven sensors to the foot. Those sensors transmit signals in real-time, via Bluetooth to […]

MIT’s sensor-packed glove helps AI identify objects by touch

Post author By Randall
Post date May 30, 2019
Categories In Ai, conductive thread, data, gear, glove, grip, hand, handle, identification, low cost, mit, neural network, polymer, pressure sensor, prosthetic, robotics, Robots, scalable tactile glove, sensors, stag, Tech, tomorrow, weight

[ad_1] The “scalable tactile glove,” or STAG, is a simple knit glove packed with more than 550 tiny sensors. The researchers wore STAG while handling 26 different objects — including a soda can, scissors, tennis ball, spoon, pen and a mug. As they did, the sensors gathered pressure-signal data, which was interpreted by a neural […]