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Powered knee brace to improve mobility: the goal: build an orthotic device to dramatically increase leg function for disabled veterans.

Publication: DAV Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The grant application was innovative and dynamic enough to convince the DAV Charitable Service Trust to award $283,221 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) toward the research, development and evaluation of a specially designed external knee brace.

The principal researcher in the project was Associate Professor Hugh Herr, an innovative leader in adaptive technology who is acutely aware...

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