bionics

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• Engineers study bionics to design advanced prosthetics that help amputees regain mobility.

• Cochlear Corp. provided data on 4,969 implants, Advanced Bionics on 167 patients, and Smith Nephew Richards on 172 patients.

  Academic text (1999)

• Note: Auria Harmony Sound Processor, courtesy of Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific Company.

  Academic text (2009)

• The United Kingdom's Touch Bionics uses the same signals to manage a much more complex prosthetic hand, the i-LIMB.

  Academic text (2008)

• Touch Bionics' i-LIMB hand combines an independently powered thumb and index finger with three fingers that move in unison.

  Academic text (2008)

• Eugene Alford is the first patient to walk with the Rex Bionics robotic exoskeletons.

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• We were featured in a thought-provoking cover story in INC's November 2012 issue that maintains that Ekso Bionics is one of "5 Big Ideas for the Next 15 Years" that have passed its Audacity Test.

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• The Rex Bionics Robotic Exoskeleton is a contraption that fits around each leg and the torso, along with two armrest extensions and a joystick.

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• The field of bionics aims to create devices that replicate the functions of biological systems found in nature.

How Biological

bioengineering

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5 6.5

biomimicry

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1 7.7

bionics

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1 7.9

robotics

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46 4.3

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