{"id":208067,"date":"2025-03-07T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/innovative-biorobotic-arm-uses-artificial-muscles-to-combat-tremors-paving-way-for-wearable-solutions"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:16:29","slug":"innovative-biorobotic-arm-uses-artificial-muscles-to-combat-tremors-paving-way-for-wearable-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/innovative-biorobotic-arm-uses-artificial-muscles-to-combat-tremors-paving-way-for-wearable-solutions","title":{"rendered":"Innovative biorobotic arm uses artificial muscles to combat tremors, paving way for wearable solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEvUAJde-cw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that about 80 million people worldwide live with a tremor. For example, those who live with Parkinson\u2019s disease. The involuntary periodic movements sometimes strongly affect how patients are able to perform daily activities, such as drinking from a glass or writing.<\/p>\n<p>Wearable soft robotic devices offer a potential solution to suppress such tremors. However, existing prototypes are not yet sophisticated enough to provide a real remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), the University of T\u00fcbingen, and the University of Stuttgart under the Bionic Intelligence T\u00fcbingen Stuttgart (BITS) collaboration want to change this. The team equipped a biorobotic arm with two strands of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+muscles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial muscles<\/a> strapped along the forearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is estimated that about 80 million people worldwide live with a tremor. For example, those who live with Parkinson\u2019s disease. The involuntary periodic movements sometimes strongly affect how patients are able to perform daily activities, such as drinking from a glass or writing. Wearable soft robotic devices offer a potential solution to suppress such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1501,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208067","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}