Amputees to benefit from advanced prosthetics control

Date: 
27/05/2016

The research, led by prosthetics company Otto Bock and conducted in the AMYO project, may constitute a watershed moment for the prosthetics industry and prostheses users as advanced artificial limbs and control systems make the leap from the lab to real-life applications. The key to the AMYO team’s solution is advanced signal acquisition and processing technologies that use an innovative human-machine interface to provide intuitive, proportional and simultaneous control of prostheses while eliminating the need for some costly components.

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A breakthrough in prosthetics technology by EU-funded researchers will provide amputees with clinically and commercially viable artificial limbs offering intuitive, proportional and simultaneous control of hand, wrist and elbow movements in the near future.
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