{"id":154525,"date":"2023-01-06T05:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/researchers-develop-new-hand-prosthetics-powered-by-breath"},"modified":"2023-01-06T05:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:14:21","slug":"researchers-develop-new-hand-prosthetics-powered-by-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/researchers-develop-new-hand-prosthetics-powered-by-breath","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop new hand prosthetics powered by breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-new-hand-prosthetics-powered-by-breath2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A company has donated 350 of Smit\u2019s, the biomechanical engineer behind the design, 3D-printed prosthetic hands to war victims in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) researchers designed laser-cutting<a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/researchers-develop-new-hand-prosthetics-powered-by-breath\"> 3D-printed prosthetic hands<\/a> for Ukranian war victims. Thanks to laser-cutting technology, war victims get their prosthetic limbs more easily. These prosthetic hands are in use in India, and Indian company Vispala donated 350 of Smit\u2019s 3D-printed prosthetic hands to war victims in Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudelft.nl\/en\/2022\/tu-delft\/victims-of-the-war-in-ukraine-receive-prosthetic-hands-designed-by-tu-delft\">according to the TU Delft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by biomedical engineer Gerwin Smit, the so-called \u201cHundred Dollar Hand\u201d is very cheap to produce. Smit\u2019s artificial hand offers a sturdy and trustworthy option because 80 percent of persons who require a prosthetic hand reside in nations with few resources. Delft-produced 350 prosthetic hands donated to Ukrainian War wictims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company has donated 350 of Smit\u2019s, the biomechanical engineer behind the design, 3D-printed prosthetic hands to war victims in Ukraine. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) researchers designed laser-cutting 3D-printed prosthetic hands for Ukranian war victims. Thanks to laser-cutting technology, war victims get their prosthetic limbs more easily. These prosthetic hands are in use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154525","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=154525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}