Sentence examples for bionic ankle from inspiring English sources
"For someone with sensory problems, the high-tech answer might be a bionic ankle," he said.
"When a person is thinking about moving their phantom ankle, the AMI that maps to that bionic ankle is moving back and forth, sending signals through the nerves to the brain, enabling the person with an amputation to actually feel their bionic ankle moving throughout the whole angular range," Herr says.
What's more, while the patients with conventional amputation reported feeling disconnected to the prosthesis, the AMI patient quickly described feeling that the bionic ankle and foot had become a part of their own body.
Proprio Foot is a bionic ankle that can detect when the wearer is walking on uneven ground and raises its toes to prevent tripping.
Bionic ankle-foot prosthesis normalizes walking gait for persons with leg amputation, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 279, no.
The Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic Foot 3 is an energy efficient bionic foot using the principle of optimal power distribution.
He has also designed his own bionic limbs, the world's first bionic lower leg called the BiOM Ankle System.
Now Ossur ($330 million in estimated 2007 sales) wants to apply its bionic wizardry to the more mundane but widespread problem of tender knees and ankles.
Anyway, Jake turns bionic.
