ROMP is a nonprofit organization that provides prosthetic and orthotic care to people without access to these services. ROMP partnered with tech startup Tukuna to develop and test a 3D printer ...

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St. Louis, Oct. 25, 2003 -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an easier and less expensive way to make sockets for prosthetic limbs. The study's ...

St. Louis, Oct. 25, 2003 -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an easier and less expensive way to make sockets for prosthetic limbs.

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Making a very simple prosthetic arm can cost $1,000 for the materials alone. But 3D scanning and printing can shrink the cost to as little as $4. In Guatemala, where some families might earn $50 ...

While Pronk thinks there’s a role for digital imaging in making prosthetic eyes, she’s not convinced that the technology involved in 3D printing, which starts with scanning the eye socket ...

A bionic knee that directly attaches to the thigh bone and uses implanted electrodes can make a prosthetic leg feel more like ...

While Lichtenberg said the socket still needs some refining, an upcoming step is for students to travel to Sierra Leone to work with doctors there to further develop the devices. Gay said the students ...

But a prosthetic leg does not change. People who rely on them must make manual adjustments throughout the day—usually by adding or removing padding within the socket of the prosthesis.

Using non-invasive imaging of a person’s remaining eye and eye socket in combination with some computer modeling, scientists led by Moorfields Eye Hospital in the U.K. 3D printed some impressive ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. (April 22, 2010) -- From developing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg to a non-chafing socket device, the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center here ...