This is what our pilot did after training with our INTUY Knee prosthesis for less than two days.
Videos
Step-over-step stair ascend and descend
You have all seen this post on Linkedin before. Our demonstrator walked in the hall of WTC rotterdam.
Last Monday our colleages recorded this nice stair climbing footage. Now step-over-step stair asend and descend is becoming easier by using the INTUY Knee powered prosthesis.
Walking with INTUY Knee prosthesis is becoming easier now
We never stop improving our robotic knee prosthesis.
We just made automatic mode switching possible. The goal is to detect human intention and terrain changes autoamtically, so that the robot become an intergral part of human body. no button or external trigger is needed.
Making the lightweight INTUY Knee prosthesis more intelligent
I hope you all had a nice Christmas.
Our colleagues were working hard during the last couple of weeks to further improve the algorithms running on our Intuy Knee prosthesis. Right now we have made some small steps.
We are now able to actively provide support during sit-stand or vice verse. Amputees do not have to bear all the weight of his trunk using the sound leg. But legs can share the load now.
We also try stair climbing, it is a bit difficult for us to do it. Because by putting the knee joint way lower than our normal knee joint center, the resultant length of the thigh is way longer than that of the shank segment. totally out of proportion. But at least 4 of our colleagues managed to climb stairs with the Intuy Knee device, using alternative stepping.
Our colleagues at University of Twente, also tried automatic gait initiation and auto speed adaptation. They managed to walk on a treadmill very nicely.
That's the update from today. We will keep moving and keep you posted.