National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind Free

Author: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, California, November 9-11, 2006 Conference
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0309104661
Category: Medical

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind: Task Group Summaries

The 2006 conference, "Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind," attracted scientists, engineers and medical researchers to participate in a series of task groups to develop research plans to address various challenges within the prosthetics field. Download National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind medical books for free.
Eleven conference task groups gave the participants eight hours to develop new research approaches to various challenges, including: build a smart prosthesis that will grow with a child; develop a smart prosthetic that can learn better and/or faster; refine technologies to create active orthotic devices; and describe a framework for replacing damaged cortical tissue and fostering circuit integration to restore neurological function. Representatives from public and private Get National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind our bestseller medical books.

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