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
  • 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