Tyler Hayes, the startup’s CEO Atomic Limbsthat artificial prostheses manufactures, has an exciting interview with the online portal “interestingengineering.com” about a new, artificial arm of the company as well as about the problem of prosthesis industry spoken. We have summarized and translated the interview for you.
Atom Touch: Decisive step towards applied bionics
According to Hayes, the Atom Touch, the efirst real artificial arm, which appears on the market. He will himself similar to a normal arm behave, almost full range of motion restore, a individual finger control allow you to be comfortable to wear all day long while keeping a basic sense of touch restore. In addition, according to the CEO, that the price more affordable than should be with “normal” prostheses.
The arm itself can be attached with a portable device associate. This device serves as a kind of link between the arm and a piece of clothing. In the portable device is a brain-computer interface installed. It recognizes the signals from the body of the wearer.
The long term goal of the company is that the artificial arm is just like a real arm functions. It is important to have one connection to the nervous system to manufacture. At the moment this is not the case. However the Atom Touch is designed to do that everyone Human whose arm has been amputated can also use the artificial arm. He is non invasive is simple and as needed accepted and accepted can be. He delivers skill, weighta full Range of motion and power generation on a human level, CEO Hayes continues.
Only every fifth amputee chooses a prosthesis
Hayes also revealed the inspiration behind the project: “The origin of Atom Limbs lies in research about the defects of healthcare system for people with limb loss. Just one in five people with arm loss opts for a prosthesis because of the available products from so poor quality and usability are that they do more harm than good. In a world where we have reusable rockets and electric cars, this seems ridiculous.
So Atom Limbs was born to over 65 million people with limbs to return their limbs and those above $800 billion to revolutionize the heavy disability industry,” explains Hayes. The Atom Touch will be in the second quarter will be available for testing this year as part of the company’s preview program and Atom Limbs plans to release the final product in the year 2023 to bring to market.
Source: interestingengineering.com