Prosthetics
Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions, a nonprofit research facility at the University of Central Florida (UCF), have expanded a 12-year partnership focused on providing 3D printed prosthetic devices to children. The…
Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, partnered with EOS and PTC to open a Digital Implant Engineering Center, bringing together engineers and physicians to design and produce customized patient…
STAND, a UK-based charity, has launched a pilot program in The Gambia that uses 3D scanning and printing to fabricate sockets, the component that connects an amputee’s residual limb to…
Qwadra, the parent company of PodoPrinter, secured an exclusive license agreement with BEGO Medical GmbH covering the use of a patent related to 3D belt printing technology for the continuous…
Ottobock, an orthopedic technology company, has introduced iconiq, its first 3D printed silicone liner for leg prosthesis users, following a German premiere at OTWorld in Leipzig last week. The product…
Praveen Gowtham, a 43-year-old physicist from New York, has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a full-length, 3D printed bionic arm for above-elbow amputees. The…
There is significant coverage of how 3D printing is used to produce custom-fit prosthetic devices for humans, but there is a whole other user segment for prosthetics that is less…
Researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) have developed a 3D printed prosthetic limb socket that uses embedded pressure sensors and artificial intelligence to generate custom socket designs, based on individual…
Modern technologies, often associated with expensive gadgets and industry, are also having a growing social impact. One example of this approach is the nonprofit organization Make Good, which uses 3D…
Vinmec, Vietnam’s leading private healthcare system, has strengthened its position as a leading innovator in medical 3D printing technology by successfully completing a total elbow megaprosthesis. The rare and highly…
