Sentences with phrase «powered prosthetic legs»
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.
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«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.