‘Stumbling Device’ Helps Improve Prosthetic Legs

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  • TBMG-34974
Published August 01, 2019 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Researchers are addressing the tendency to stumble in lower-body prosthetics by understanding the way people with two legs catch themselves. They accomplished this by covering test subjects with motion-capturing sensors. It also required tripping them over and over — 190 times, to be exact — for a study. But because humans are so mentally geared to resist stumbling, the team first had to design a stumbling device.