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Great feature on David Morgenroth from CLiMB in the latest issue of the O&P Almanac. Click below to read about his inspiring personal story and learn more about his work on improving function and quality of life for people with limb loss. #AssistiveTech #Mobility #LimbLoss #Collaboration - with American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association, University of Washington, UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Wondering where we’ve been and where we’re going? Check out our latest blog post for an overview of last year’s progress and some of the areas where we’re most excited to be accelerating innovation in 2021. #Prosthetics #Exoskeleton #LLA #Caplex

Our latest blog post features a Q&A with our Director of Sales, Gabriel Forsythe y Korzeniewicz. Read on to hear his thoughts on how we aspire to shape the broader conversation about disability as technology developers, plus get a closer look at growth and change at Humotech during the COVID-19 pandemic. #disability #technology #pandemic #disTech

Happy New Year from Humotech! We hope the upcoming year is an inspiring one for each of you.

Interesting #hip #exoskeleton powered by #Caplex in action at University of Nebraska at Omaha. Philippe Malcolm, Arash M. Gonabadi, and team are exploring a hybrid exosuit/exoskeleton design to assist folks with peripheral artery disease walk with less effort. This work was presented at #vASB2020 and utilizes a similar control strategy to the one described in the team’s most recent full-length article in IEEE TNSRE: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9078836 - with Univer...sity of Nebraska at Omaha- Department of Biomechanics #AssistiveDevices #Biomechanics

Awesome to see #ultra #runner, Jacky Hunt-Broersma, putting a custom #Caplex system at Vanderbilt University’s CREATE center through its paces! Thanks to Jacy and our friends at Vanderbilt for making this exciting research about the potential benefits of bi-articular actuation of #prosthetic #feet possible. #AmputeeLife #AssistiveDevices - with Jacky Hunt-Broersma - ncrunnerjacky

Clinical scientists at the VA Center for Limb Loss and MoBility are enhancing #prosthetic #foot prescription with research on test drive strategies to maximize patient #outcomes. Learn more in our recent customer spotlight The Bridge From Research to Patient Care. #Rehabilitation #Mobility #Amputation #Caplex - with Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs - CDMRP & U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

We recently delivered a #Caplex system to our first international customer: Queen’s University in Canada! Really excited to be working with Jess Selinger, Megan McAllister, and others at the #Neuromechanics Lab. We’re used to hands-on installation and training, so remote setup was certainly a challenge, but we're getting the hang of it. #Humotech #Innovation - with Queen's University and School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.

Humotech’s latest updates to the Caplex GUI bring wearable assistive device research one step further into the future. #Exoskeleton #ProductDesign #ProsthesisTech

Another exciting update from our collaborators at the VA Center for Limb Loss and Mobility (CLiMB)! A new study of a patient-centered test-drive strategy for prosthetic foot prescription will be starting later this month. The study will focus on understanding the relationship between prosthetic foot mechanical properties and stability and falls-related outcomes in those with lower limb loss. David Morgenroth, MD leads the project as PI and it’s been funded by a 4-year, $2M g...rant from the Department of Defense Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program. This study is a continuation of an ongoing collaboration between the VA, including the Minneapolis Adaptive Design and Engineering (MADE) Program and Humotech and will utilize 2 degree-of-freedom prosthesis emulator technology first developed at Carnegie Mellon University. #Mobility #Accessibility #Prosthetics #Stability #Falls #Balance #Prescription Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs - CDMRP

The virtual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics is this week. We're especially excited for the #Prosthetics, #Orthotics, and #Robotics posters/talks coming up tomorrow! #vASB2020 #Biomechanics Georgia Tech

The world of wearable robotics and assistive technology is rapidly expanding, and we’re excited to help accelerate that innovation. In fact, we’re so excited that we’re launching a blog, where we will go in depth on the latest and greatest as we see it. Check it out on our website: https://www.humotech.com/blog! We’re looking forward to sharing these updates with you all and welcome your feedback. Subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/g9p4Zn. #Robotics #MadeInPgh #AssistiveDevices

Nice work by one of our DoD colleagues! Lauren Brousseau, Research Prosthetist at the Center for the Intrepid, recently received an award for Most Outstanding Research in the Field of Neuromusculoskeletal Rehabilitation during the 22nd Annual Omer Day for her work investigating the predictive validity of in-lab test-driving of prosthetic feet. Visit https://www.sammcorthoalumni.com/omer-day to learn more. #Prosthetics #Amputations #Rehabilitation

Thanks to LifeX Labs for including Humotech in the accelerator program! Congratulations to all of our fellow graduates along with the final pitch competition winner, CerebroScope! #Pittsburgh #Entrepreneurs #MadeInPGH #LifeSciences

Exciting update from our collaborators at the VA Center for Limb Loss and Mobility (CLiMB)! Beth Halsne was the recipient of an Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation (OPERF) 2020 Fellowship Award for research entitled, Comparison of Gait Biomechanics with Commercial Feet and Emulated Feet Using a Robotic Prosthetic Foot Emulator in People with Transtibial Amputation. This one-year fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students and their excellence i...n research related to the O&P profession. Beth and her advisor David Morgenroth, MD at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System will use this award to evaluate walking in people with below-knee amputations using the Humotech Caplex ankle-foot prosthesis programmed to emulate the mechanical properties of commercial prosthetic feet compared to walking with the corresponding commercial feet. #Caplex #AssistiveTech #Prosthetics

Humotech embraces the World Health Organization (WHO)'s mission to improve #access to high-quality & affordable #assistivedevices through its #GATE initiative. We are working to enhance the provision of appropriate #prosthetic, #orthotic / #exoskeleton technology by developing user-centric tools for assessment, fitting, and training. Learn more about the importance of the WHO's GATE initiative at https://www.who.int//assistive_techn/2206_infographic.pdf

Humotech's #Caplex PRO-001, a.k.a the prosthesis emulator, in action. The system is a tethered robotic ankle-foot prosthesis designed for research & development aimed at discovering new ways of enhancing #mobility for persons with lower-limb amputation. For more info, see: http://www.humotech.com/ankle-prosthesis/ #MadeInPGH #Robotics #Innovation #Prosthetics

The Stanford University Biomechatronics Lab developed an awesome open source platform for perturbing people during locomotion! It’s a lot smaller than Humotech’s standard actuator units, but still packs a punch (as you can see in the video). See the full series of videos at https://biomechatronics.stanford.edu/bump-em Humotech is here to support labs wanting to build this system. Contact us to learn more. #AcceleratingInnovation #Biomechanics #Research... - with Stanford School of Engineering