As if losing a limb wasn’t hard enough for a person, often the task of finding, fitting and affording a prosthetic limb can be almost as excruciating. Enter MIT’s FitSocket technology, which uses 3D scanning, 3D printing, and 3D modeling software to create custom 3D-printed limbs. A laser scanner is used to scan the remainder of the limb and allow the anatomy of the prosthetic and the natural limb to “match up within fractions of a millimeter,”
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:03:05 +0000
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