A team of researchers are aiming to provide a way for hand-wrist prostheses to move more naturally by enabling the hand and wrist to work simultaneously-known as two degrees of freedom-using electrical impulses generated by remnant muscles in the forearm. Traditional prostheses only work with one degree of freedom-that is, either the hand or the wrist can be in motion at any one time.
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Researchers Aiming to Produce a Hand-Wrist Prosthesis with Two Degrees of Freedom
A team of researchers are aiming to provide a way for hand-wrist prostheses to move more naturally by enabling the hand and wrist to work simultaneously-known as two degrees of freedom-using electrical impulses generated by remnant muscles in the forearm. Traditional prostheses only work with one degree of freedom-that is, either the hand or the wrist can be in motion at any one time.
UMass partners for better biotech
Now, the university’s program will get even stronger as it joins a public-private partnership to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies and train a skilled workforce. Massachusetts has been named a partner in the nation’s first manufacturing innovation institute in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and UMass Lowell is one of five universities supporting the effort — working towards finding better ways to produce biotech drugs.