2010.03.03 - Jonathan Kuniholm - Prosthetics
The Bionic Man the Still Unkept Promis of Prosthetic Arms and Proposed Solutions
- Jonathan Kuniholm
- Bionic arms have a long way to go
- Media has a bias towards the fantastic
- There are only about 70,000 amputees in the US, so very small market
- Very little funding for upper limb prosthetics
- Funding is not well organized for prosthetics
- Deka got 25 million for their arm
- Funding is not well organized for prosthetics
- Tang, velcro, teflon did not come from the space program
- What can we do to make bionic arms?
- Borrow from larger industries
- Go open source
- More collaboration
- Vivoweb - facebook for scientists
- Create open architecture standard
- Open source EMG board