Degrees of freedom — COVER STORY
More sophisticated electronic control means prosthetics are giving greater freedom to users.
For those living in the West, losing a limb or being born with a missing limb isn’t the catastrophe it once was because a revolution in prosthetics engineering has led to the development of lighter, more comfortable and anatomically correct devices.
With electronics content becoming ubiquitous, it will be no surprise to learn that, in the case of artificial limb development, electronics technology is now contributing exponential increases in functionality and freedom for users.
