Prosthetics

Acknowledgements

It is now just over a week after the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, and I am happy to report that everything worked!

At the exhibition

We’re in London! Earlier today we met the Newcastle team at the Royal Society and set up our stand.

When we started this journey, we had huge ideas that we slowly trimmed down to fit our 2 x 4 metre space…

Voices of prosthesis users, part 2

Guest post by Helen Millward

Graham likes to joke about his prosthetic hand. He once told someone that he lost his hand due to a shark attack off the Great Barrier Reef while working as a scuba instructor.

Voices of prosthesis users, part 1

Guest post by Helen Millward

Tony was born without his left arm below the elbow. He visited us at Keele University a couple of weeks ago to discuss his thoughts on the current upper limb prosthetic options and his views on his own prosthesis…

Data collection part 1

I’m writing this on a train going from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. We’ll spend the next two and a half days there collecting data for our experiment! My brain is so busy running through checklists and protocols that I can’t even think of a joke to make about the two…