Robotic Legs Take Cues from Humans
From: Medical Design Technology - 11/18/2015

To mitigate challenges above knee amputees face with producing a normal gait,
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are developing a robotic leg capable
of recovering balance and producing stable walking gaits.

Powered prosthetics are outfitted with motors capable of adjusting knee and
ankle angles during walking. Additionally, the device generates force, making
usage less physically straining.

For the nearly 2 million amputees in the US, prosthetics may provide some
semblance of a lost limb. But with advances in technology, there may soon
come a day when the only difference between a biological and robotic limb is
simply the parts within.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2015/11/robotic-legs-take-cues-humans
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/11/robotic-legs-take-cues-humans

Links:
Amputee Coalition
http://www.amputee-coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/importance_gait_training.pdf

Hartmut Geyer
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hgeyer

CMU’s Robotic Leg Gives Amputees Better Balance
http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/cmus_robotic_leg_gives_amputees_better_balance