Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics

Sci Robot. 2023 Oct 25;8(83):eadk9421. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.adk9421. Epub 2023 Oct 25.

J D Brown¹, E Battaglia², S Engdahl³, G Levay^{4

5}, A C Parks⁶, E Skinner⁷, M K O'Malley⁸

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
³ American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association, Alexandria, VA, USA.
⁴ Infinite Biomedical Technologies, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵ Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary.
⁶ Academic Affairs, Metropolitan Campus, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁷ Independent Researcher, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

Abstract

Realistically improving upper-limb prostheses is only possible if we listen to users' actual technological needs.