by Alfred Poor | December 19, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One challenge for artificial limbs — whether they are attached to a robot or to a human as a prosthetic — is to sense pressure. The feedback from your fingertips tells you if you are gripping an object firmly enough. If it starts to slip, you can sense it...
![Linking to Muscles with Light [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2014/12/Light-controlled-limbs.jpg?resize=600%2C319)
by Alfred Poor | December 16, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One of the most amazing forms of wearable technology is the robotic prosthetic limb. This technology promises to restore normal use of hands and legs to those who have lost them due to injury or disease. One of the major challenges, however, is to get signals from...
![Prosthetic Hand Restores Sense of Touch [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2014/11/prosthetic-touch.jpg?resize=600%2C341)
by Alfred Poor | November 13, 2014 | Medical
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a system that allows a patient to feel objects in his prosthetic hand. In partnership with the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dustin Pyler leads a seven-member team that is working...
by Alfred Poor | November 12, 2014 | Health, Medical
In a recent interview with on Syracuse.com, Jessica Crawford of the MedTech Association offered some predictions about the future of medical technology and its impact on society. One important driving factor that she cited was the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which she...
by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2014 | Medical
Around the world, children and adults have debilitating conditions that require them to wear complex body braces. The current procedure to create these devices involves a lengthy process of plaster casts, measurements, fabrication, fitting, and modification as the...
