{"id":91721,"date":"2019-06-06T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-to-rapidly-advance-prosthetics"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:04:31","slug":"first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-to-rapidly-advance-prosthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-to-rapidly-advance-prosthetics","title":{"rendered":"First-of-its-kind platform aims to rapidly advance prosthetics"},"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\/Rqla0u813r8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The leg\u2019s free-to-copy design and programming are intended to improve the quality of life of patients and accelerate <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/scientific+advances\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scientific advances<\/a> by offering a unified platform to fragmented research efforts across the field of bionics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Open-Source Bionic Leg will enable investigators to efficiently solve challenges associated with controlling <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/bionic+legs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bionic legs<\/a> across a range of activities in the lab and out in the community,\u201d said lead designer Elliott Rouse, core faculty at U-M\u2019s Robotics Institute and assistant professor of mechanical engineering. \u201cIn addition, we hope our bionic leg will unite researchers with a common hardware platform and enable new investigators from related fields to develop innovative control strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-06-first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-rapidly-advance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The leg\u2019s free-to-copy design and programming are intended to improve the quality of life of patients and accelerate scientific advances by offering a unified platform to fragmented research efforts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91721","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}