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Ex combat medic becoming a neuroscientist!
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MPO College Options

Lyndzie Lehman

I think one of the most intimidating aspects of entering into the field of prosthetics is the fact that there are only twelve accredited colleges that offer a Master’s in Prosthetics and Orthotics. I cannot help but to think back to my junior year of high school, way back when we had to apply to undergraduate programs. Then, there was roughly fourteen thousand five hundred colleges to choose from and way back then, I applied to thirteen colleges. Now I have twelve colleges to choose from, and I find that fact quite alarming.

Today I realize how quickly life goes by. It feels like yesterday that I was a freshman at college and graduate school was the last thing on my mind, but alas here I am three years later planning out the next four years of life.  I would be lying if I said I was not terrified.  There…

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Next-gen artificial limbs help amputees grab onto a better life

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Even when Adrian Albrich sits still, you can hear the motors in his hand whirring. Bzzzt. Vrrrt. Zyyt. Little more than a month after doctors outfitted him with a new prosthetic left hand, Albrich still fidgets with it, clenching and unclenching, alternating grips, acclimating to the way it feels and reacts.

With spindly metal fingers, carbon-fiber knuckles and black silicon fingertips, there’s no mistaking Albrich’s prosthetic left hand for its muscle-and-bone counterpart, but the things it can do certainly come close. He can grasp a water bottle and twist off the cap. Pick up a quarter off the table. Hold a tiny finishing nail while he pounds it in with a hammer. He can even view a graph of the electric signals he uses to trigger it … on an iPhone. Try doing that with the real thing.

Though he’s one of the first recipients in the United States…

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Hugh Herr the Real Bionic Man

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Bionic Hugh HerrReposted from: CNN/Coming up on ‘The Next List’: Hugh Herr, Bionic man

Hugh Herr, who is the director of the Biomechatronics group at MIT’s Media Lab and the founder of iWalk. He invents bionic limbs that move like flesh and bone. Herr lost both of his limbs in a tragic mountain climbing accident.

Hugh Herr believes there’s no such thing as disability – only bad technology.

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Bionics Changing Lives

Lyndzie Lehman

In previous generations, loosing a limb or being born with out, meant that the quality of the patients life would be greatly decreased. Luckily we live in the 21st century. Now because of the advancement of technology, people who are missing limbs are able to accomplish anything that they put their mind to. No longer are lower limb amputee’s confined to a wheelchair, but rather they are able to explore the world on two capable legs thanks to people like Hugh Herr. I first learned about Herr while watching a Ted Talk. He was an avid mountain climber growing up until he was involved in a hiking accident in 1982 that resulted in both of his legs being amputated. He currently spends his time making his vision of creating highly functional prothetics a reality using bionic technology. As a result, he has been able to return to the mountains using…

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Atlas Robot Goes All Ralph Macchio

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Atlas Robot Tries To Do The Karate Kid “Crane” Stance

” If robots of the future start trying to become our new overlords, we could probably trace it back to this day. Well, sort of. Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IMHC) is teaching its Atlas robot a few kickass moves. Or at least is trying to. The latest stunt this humanoid contraption is trying to pull off is that iconic stance from 1984’s Karate Kid, popularly known as “The Crane”. But while it seems to have its arm movements down to a T, it still needs a lot of work on its legs.

  OK, the Atlas won’t be kicking enemies, humans or robots, any time soon. Flapping your arms up and down is relatively easy. Jumping from a single foot to the other is easier said than done, especially for a robot that weighs 150 kg, almost…

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