If the leg does not straighten completely and you put your weight on it, you crash to the ground. The heel landing on a Lego piece, an extension cord or a crack in the sidewalk prevents the knee ...

A new bionic knee allows amputees to walk faster, climb stairs more easily, and adroitly avoid obstacles, researchers ...

A revolutionary bionic leg that responds to brain commands. This new bionic leg, designed by MIT researchers and engineers, allows amputees to control the prosthesis simply by thinking.

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Proteor SAS is launching the Synsys bionic leg, a sensor-equipped microprocessor-controlled knee-ankle-foot prosthetic leg for above-the-knee amputees. This new generation prosthesis coordinates knee ...

When an amputee patient thinks about walking, the prosthetic limb moves naturally A high-tech prosthetic leg enables amputees to walk naturally and at normal speeds without consciously thinking ...

I know of what I speak since I lost my right leg above the knee 50 years ago when I was 16. Out of the U.S. population of 332 million, 2.1 million are amputees. Of those, 65% are leg amputees .