#prosthetic

#prosthetic

High School Student Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm That Doesn't Require Brain SurgeryAre you smarter than a high schooler? I bet you are not smarter than Benjamin Choi, a high school student who invented a low-cost, mind-controlled prosthetic arm.Creating things like this must really spark joy in Benjamin Choi. He went from participating in robot-building competitions when he was younger to eventually teaching himself coding and computer programming. Choi’s device was inspired by a documentary he saw that discussed mind-controlled prosthesis. He turned this fascination with prosthetics into something that is real and functional. He worked around 16 hours daily in his basement, where he designed the robotic arm using a 3D printer. Although he did not have the best laboratory or the best printer in the market, this did not stop Choi's resourcefulness. Now, the robotic arm is made from engineering-grade materials and has a total unit cost of only around $300.The arm is operated using an algorithm driven by artificial intelligence. The promising features of the invention earned him a spot in the top 40 finalists of Regeneron Science Talent Search 2022.Image credit: Society for Science#ArtificialIntelligence #Prosthetic #Invention #Science #RegeneronScienceTalentSearch

After Losing His Fingers, Engineer Built His Own Steampunk Mechanical Prosthetic HandAfter a workshop accident where he smashed his hand, Ian Davis suffered a blood infection that ultimately led to amputations of four fingers on his left hand. To make matters worse, Davis learned that his insurance would have covered the cost of a prosthetic hand if he had lost his entire left hand - not just the four fingers because "fingers are not medically necessary."Being a mechanical engineer, Davis decided to build himself a steampunk prosthetic hand - one that is better than a medical prosthetic hand, and at a fraction of the cost.In this YouTube video, Davis managed to enable the splay function on his mechanical prosthetic hand.