Sentences with phrase «controlled prosthetic leg»

The knee is produced by Otto Bock, a German company that developed a groundbreaking computer - controlled prosthetic leg in the 1990s called the C - Leg.

The RIC's most recent advance, the development of the world's first mind controlled prosthetic leg, was aided by $ 8 million worth of funding from the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.

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For those who are missing a leg or who have a broken spine, the signals can control computers, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it — all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his thigh where they can be used to communicate with a robotic leg.

Ultimately, Herr would like to deliver a «biohybrid» prosthetic leg system in which the limb moves much like a human leg and can be controlled by the wearer's neurological system.