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Article: Engineers Pitch Medical Marvels.(Johns Hopkins University)(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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- Design News
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- December 10, 2007
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By Lawrence D. Maloney, Contributing Editor
From the world's most sophisticated prosthetic to a robotic 'inch worm' for heart surgery, engineers are harnessing motion systems for medical innovation
A veteran of the Iraq war yearns to perform normal activities after losing a hand to a roadside bomb. A stroke victim wants to regain use of a partially paralyzed limb. A surgeon searches for a safe method to operate on a beating heart.
Design engineers, working with medical professionals, are devising solutions to all these challenges, in large part by implementing cutting-edge motion systems. Engineers at Johns Hopkins University, for example, are ...