{"id":232458,"date":"2026-03-03T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/novel-prosthetic-design-combines-ai-and-3d-printing-to-improve-fit"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:12:16","slug":"novel-prosthetic-design-combines-ai-and-3d-printing-to-improve-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/novel-prosthetic-design-combines-ai-and-3d-printing-to-improve-fit","title":{"rendered":"Novel prosthetic design combines AI and 3D printing to improve fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-prosthetic-design-combines-ai-and-3d-printing-to-improve-fit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new, fully customizable 3D printed socket design is set to transform the prosthetics industry. The reimagined limb socket interface combines highly personalized pressure mapping with AI software and a lighter infill, creating a highly customized prosthetic that\u2019s more comfortable to wear, for much longer, say researchers at Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, fully customizable 3D printed socket design is set to transform the prosthetics industry. The reimagined limb socket interface combines highly personalized pressure mapping with AI software and a lighter infill, creating a highly customized prosthetic that\u2019s more comfortable to wear, for much longer, say researchers at Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232458","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}