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Two-year-old Agnia Shtak from the city of Armavir has found herself the envy of the playground after being fitted with a multi-function 3D-printed prosthetic hand developed by Moscow-based biomedical startup Motorica. Agnia, who suffers from a congenital hand deformity, demonstrated her wide range of skills while wearing the prosthesis at the Skolkovo Innovation Center in the Russian capital on Tuesday. "We've developed a very functional and very durable prosthesis, which can be put on children from two or three years of age," explained Motorika founder Ilya Chekh. He said this encourages a child "to learn how to use a functional prosthesis from the early years, and later at a more advanced level." Chekh also noted that children who wear the colourful prostheses often find they attract positive attention and interaction from other children. "When they see a kid with that kind of prosthesis, children get interested in it and want to see how it works. They even ask to try it sometimes," he explained. The company uses 3D-printing because they say it makes component parts more resilient and quicker to manufacture. Some models even have holders for special gadgets like video cameras and audio players. Motorika is a startup of the Skolkovo Foundation's Biomedical Cluster.
The world's first ever 3D-printed excavator was unveiled at the 2017 CONEXPO-CON/AGG show, an international construction trade show, at Las Vegas Convention Center, Tuesday. Made with a range of additive printing processes, the machine is called the Additive Manufacturing Excavator, or AME. Several institutions, including the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the National Fluid Power Association, the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, The OAK Ridge National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation, built the AME. Two research teams of graduate engineering students from Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota also designed several sections of the excavator, including the cab. The most important piece of information about the AME is that it actually works, and works well. Not only is the AME set to drastically reduce costs for excavators in general, the designers and builders of the AME envision great things for its future. It could be used in helping to rebuild lower income communities and may even play a role in developing land on Mars for human habitation.
Surgeons use 3D printed models of 2-year-old Lucy Boucher's abdomen and her father's kidney to figure out how to successfully transplant an adult kidney into a child. Matthew Stock reports.
An American teenager says the robotic arm he invented in his bedroom could be a platform for future prosthetic limbs and first responder machinery. As Jim Drury reports he says the mind control mechanism can also be 3D printed for less than 600 dollars.
Renault brings an ambitious model to its SUV range: the All-New Renault Austral. It will serve to bolster efforts to win back the C segment that forms the core of the global automotive market. The All-New Austral is part of the ‘cars for living’ tradition and marks the next milestone in the C-segment offensive started by the Arkana and the Megane E-TECH Electric, with a resolutely modern approach. The ‘Nouvelle Vague’ that aims to turn the brand into an industry benchmark for technology, clean energy, and services.
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