A new open-source, artificially intelligent prosthetic leg designed by researchers at the University of Michigan and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is now available to the scientific community. As an open-source project, anyone can contribute to improving the leg’s design and function. Although the designs and code are free, the leg is still a high-end, state-of-the-art prosthetic,…
One of the noblest uses of knowledge and especially the open source one is the willingness to apply it for a distributed social benefit, like in this case: Most able-bodied people don’t really understand exactly how expensive it is to be disabled in a world built for people who are not. I have heard several…
Second Hackaday Prize 2015 goes to open source prosthetics by OpenBionics: Nowadays most prosthetic hands cost dozens of thousands of USD. The OpenBionics initiative (www.openbionics.org) presents a new open-source design for highly functional prosthetic hands. The proposed hands cost less than 200$, weigh less than 300 gr and can be easily fabricated with off-the-shelf materials…
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