Realizing the promise of robotic leg prostheses

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 210, 2013, Pages

  Goldfarb, Michael ^a   Lawson, Brian E ^a   Shultz, Amanda H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOSENSOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG PROSTHESIS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROLOGICAL IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; WALKING;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; LEG; ROBOTICS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84888603156     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007312     Document Type: Review

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