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High-tech Prosthetics: Granting locomotion to all with open-source robotics.
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How inclusive are advanced prosthetics technologies?
The global demand for prosthetics and orthotics is only expected to rise. Yet, access to affordable and innovative solutions varies greatly at local, national and international levels. And while 3D printing has greatly contributed to making prosthetics available in low-income and developing regions, the benefits that robotics and technological innovation bring users remain highly exclusive.
This may be about to change. In an attempt to make high-tech prosthetics solutions more accessible, Professor in Biomechatronics at the University of Agder in Norway, Filippo Sanfilippo, along with his colleagues (Martin Økter, Jørgen Dale, Hua Minh Tuan, Muhammad Hamza Zafar, Morten Ottestad) have published an open-source, low-cost sensorised elastic actuator design that promises to shift innovation from the market to the commons.
This episode is researched, produced and edited by Miriam Gradel, Journalist and Media Editor at HardwareX. The music is provided by Kammerin Hunt and ComaStudio via Pixabay.
HardwareX is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about open-source hardware. For more info, visit HardwareX.
24 episoder
Manage episode 439228246 series 2993759
How inclusive are advanced prosthetics technologies?
The global demand for prosthetics and orthotics is only expected to rise. Yet, access to affordable and innovative solutions varies greatly at local, national and international levels. And while 3D printing has greatly contributed to making prosthetics available in low-income and developing regions, the benefits that robotics and technological innovation bring users remain highly exclusive.
This may be about to change. In an attempt to make high-tech prosthetics solutions more accessible, Professor in Biomechatronics at the University of Agder in Norway, Filippo Sanfilippo, along with his colleagues (Martin Økter, Jørgen Dale, Hua Minh Tuan, Muhammad Hamza Zafar, Morten Ottestad) have published an open-source, low-cost sensorised elastic actuator design that promises to shift innovation from the market to the commons.
This episode is researched, produced and edited by Miriam Gradel, Journalist and Media Editor at HardwareX. The music is provided by Kammerin Hunt and ComaStudio via Pixabay.
HardwareX is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about open-source hardware. For more info, visit HardwareX.
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1 Reducing CO2: Using open-source technologies to scale the power of nature 26:39

1 Tagging 6000 Bees: An Open-source System for Species Monitoring 32:52

1 Democratising Air Quality: An Open-source Solution to Filling Data Gaps in the Global South 24:22

1 Building A Better Mousetrap: Scaling animal wellbeing with open-source hardware 23:18

1 A Co-benefits Approach: Preserving more than one species with open-source hardware 27:46

1 Microwaves Against Malaria: Life-saving technologies and the question of patenting. 31:52

1 High-tech Prosthetics: Granting locomotion to all with open-source robotics. 28:30

1 Drones for Data Gathering: How open-source hardware is making environmental research more viable 23:18

1 The Future of Food: (Re)growing vertical farming with open-source automation 33:16

1 Open Hardware Talks: Validating openness (with OSHWA and Open Source Ecology Germany) 35:46

1 From Gaza to Ukraine: Exploring the Glia open-source tourniquet and scaling decentralised manufacturing during conflict 32:22

1 HILO Studio for Innovations in Textile Manufacturing (with Sara Diaz Rodriguez, Natalija Krasnoperova, and Lukas Schattenhofer from Berlin, Germany) 41:58

1 Music Composition and Environmental Sensing (with Chet Udell) 44:24

1 Portable, open-source wireless spectrophotometer (with Katrina Laganovska from Riga, Latvia) 24:18

1 Open-source pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (with Diego Lagos-Susaeta from Santiago, Chile) 16:51
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