ã€New Keywords: USB Prosthesis】
“The feet are everywhere, and when the wine comes, the chicken is yellow†and there are a pair of healthy legs and feet that can walk through the mountains and rivers, read thousands of books, and travel thousands of miles. However, not everyone is fortunate enough to have a complete body. When the body has a disability, many things that can make you feel lucky will not be realized. In order to help people who have a natural disability or acquired disabilities to recover their confidence, scientists from the well-known American incubator “Y Combiner†produced a “USB Prosthesisâ€.
The part with the interface can be tightly connected to any type of prosthesis
According to the British "IBT" website, Oliver Armitage and Emil Juvic are researchers from the same research team. Since 2015, they established the "Cambridge Biofortification System CBAS", a start-up company. They invented and designed an implanted prosthetic limb and believed that it would change the lives of amputees and handicapped people forever.
The new invention, by implanting a bionic device into the human body, connects the prosthetic body with the soft tissue of the body, and can permanently integrate the prosthetic limb into the bone to form a state of "bones integration". Although the integration was surprising, the CBAS scientists were not satisfied. They then unified the interface of the bionic device so that the site with the interface could be tightly connected to any type of prosthetic limb. Therefore, this type of prosthesis is also known as the "USB Prosthesis." ".
The new prosthetic limb can receive information from the amputee's nervous system and change the game rules of the prosthetic limb model. In clinical tests, researchers hope that implanted biomimetic devices can eventually replace "bowl" or "socket" shaped plastic limb connectors to prevent disabled people from leaving bleeding limbs or uncomfortable painful memories. It is exciting that technology provides amputees the ability to walk comfortably, wave and simply move.
The two founders believe that the purpose of developing new types of prosthetic limbs is not merely to reduce the pain of the traditional prosthetics in the process of wearing, but also to reduce the cost of amputees in prosthetic limb production, and even to change the sales pattern of the entire prosthetic market. In the United States, people who want to install prosthetic limbs must go to a professional institution for customization. When prosthetics are paralyzed or need revision, they are inconvenient. With a unified bionic interface, people do not need to customize and can purchase prostheses directly through e-commerce and other online channels. Before sending the amputee, the amputee can communicate with the manufacturer at any time, adding functionality to the prosthetic limb, changing the design, and satisfying the user's different needs for the prosthetic limb.
Finding a solution that can use implants widely
Oliver said that for him, making people's lives better and more comfortable is something that should be placed first. Under a large economic environment, scientists should be able to achieve this goal in a socially acceptable way. Some people fly to Australia to buy implants that have been suspended for research. It carries an infection risk and should be used with caution. However, people still go to buy and use them. This is very dangerous and expensive. As researchers, their invention is precisely to find a solution that can widely use implants.
Oliver is from Cambridge and is 27 years old this year. Emil was 28 years old and grew up in Aberdeenshire, USA. Both of them are doctors in bioengineering, and they were partners of the same laboratory during the first year of reading. Now that they have become roommates, Oliver has successfully completed his Ph.D., while Emile is shuttled between Cambridge and London to attract investors with new inventions.
Oliver felt that his entire life was to bring this invention to the public. He explained that he has been trying hard to think about how to seamlessly combine advanced bionic prosthetics with the body. Compared to ten years ago, simply thinking that it would be fine to put a chip or prosthetic limb there, now at least it has become a Ph.D. who knows the interaction of substances. In 2011, Oliver first described the biological concept of the implant at the Royal Physical Society. In his subsequent reading career, he explained the wonders of biological engineering materials to others again and again. He believes that people can use technology to make the body work better, or to replace the part that does not work.
Future amputees will be able to use the body to fully control the prosthesis
At the beginning of its establishment, CBAS received an investment of 50,000 pounds from the “big challenge†startup startup project. The founder of the incubator helped the two founders implement their ideas, set goals, arrange for them to meet with business mentors, and help them build a global network that includes even some of the US markets they wish to enter.
It is expected that the first batch of "USB prosthetics" will be available for sale in the market in 2018 at prices ranging from 3,000 pounds to 5,000 pounds, with an effective period of up to 20 years. The two scientists believe that the sale time should not be accelerated for new inventions or amputees, and there are still many errors in the structure of new prostheses that need to be adjusted. However, in the trials that have been conducted, the trialists said that the feeling of using new prosthetic limbs is like that they once lost their limbs. Many people once realized that they had a disability because they felt the pain caused by the prosthesis. They said that walking with prosthetic limbs using “socket†type joints is like walking in the sea water, which makes people feel disgusted. It can be said that the traditional prosthetics make the amputee's body more fragile.
Implantable prostheses are significantly different. In clinical use, it is safer, more comfortable, more economical, and easier to install. Just turn around and after a few bangs, the amputee can get up in the morning to go hiking and go hiking with his family in the evening. Oliver laughed and said that as long as people's imagination is not limited, people can invent very cool things.
In the past few years, robotic bionic technology has made amazing progress, such as wearable robots that can help “gradually frozen people†stand up and walk slowly. In the future, high-tech bionic prosthetics will no longer be controlled by the computer system, but by the patient's own brain. CBAS's inventions have been tilted toward the transmission of neural information, but they are also investigating neural implant systems that can transmit information in real time. Researchers believe that in the future, only two directions can be used simultaneously. In the future, amputees can use the body to fully control the prosthesis and smoothly complete all kinds of movements.
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