{"id":149229,"date":"2022-10-31T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/engineering-students-have-developed-a-3d-printed-prosthetic-arm-for-people-with-disabilities"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:26:59","slug":"engineering-students-have-developed-a-3d-printed-prosthetic-arm-for-people-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/engineering-students-have-developed-a-3d-printed-prosthetic-arm-for-people-with-disabilities","title":{"rendered":"Engineering students have developed a 3D-printed prosthetic arm for people with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-students-have-developed-a-3d-printed-prosthetic-arm-for-people-with-disabilities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More affordable than the regular ones.<\/p>\n<p>The Arm2u biomedical engineering team from the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB) of the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya designed and constructed a configurable transradial prosthesis that responds to the user\u2019s nerve impulses using 3D printing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Arm2u is a prosthesis that can replace a missing arm below the elbow. It can be controlled with myoelectric control, which means that it is controlled by the natural electrical signals produced by muscle contraction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>UPC<\/p>\n<p>As stated in the release, UPC bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree students started off improving a prosthesis for people with disabilities using assistive technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More affordable than the regular ones. The Arm2u biomedical engineering team from the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB) of the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya designed and constructed a configurable transradial prosthesis that responds to the user\u2019s nerve impulses using 3D printing technology. Arm2u is a prosthesis that can replace a missing arm below the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1499,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}