The Bionic Body: No Longer a Fantasy
From: IEEE The Institute - 12/19/2016
By: Kathy Pretz

Human augmentation will first help people regain lost abilities, but
eventually the applications will assist able-bodied people, enhancing their
productivity, says IEEE Senior Member Yu Yuan, chair of the IEEE Digital
Senses Initiative. The group is working with academia and industry to remove
barriers to the development and widespread adoption of augmented reality,
virtual reality, and human augmentation. The DSI, which fosters
collaborations, helps develop standards, and organizes events, was launched
last year by the IEEE Future Directions Committee, the organization's R&D arm.

IEEE members are working to make prosthetic hands and knees that are more
humanlike, as well as on a lighter, more comfortable exoskeleton.

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http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/robotics/the-bionic-body-no-longer-a-fantasy

Links:
IEEE Digital Senses Initiative
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/consumer-electronics/a-new-ieee-initiative-focuses-on-augmented-reality-virtual-reality-and-human-augmentation-technologies

Non-Invasive, Temporally Discrete Feedback of Object Contact and Release
  Improves Grasp Control of Closed-loop Myoelectric Transradial Prostheses
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7328737

New Prostheses and Orthoses Step Up Their Game
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7469471

Multi-Joint Soft Exosuit for Gait Assistance
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/robotics/the-bionic-body-no-longer-a-fantasy