HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering

Advancing bionic technologies and systems to improve the ability of individuals to move and live independently.

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

We made the TIME's 2023 Best Inventions list 😍🦿🎊!

Honored, excited, proud, and grateful for all the fantastic students who worked on this project and made this possible!

@UtahCoE @UtahMech @UPIVOTCenter #amputee #Robotic #phdlife #Engineering

[TIME @TIME]

This new bionic leg is capable of movement that’s much closer to a natural leg and knee, and can make it easier to move around https://t.co/qmAcBQZ1zd

[Prof. Robert Gregg, Ph.D. @doctorBobG]

Pleased to announce our upcoming @ieee_ras_icra workshop "State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities", co-organized with @GT_EPIC_Lab and @LabBionic

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

Congratulations to the U-Build Bionic Knee for winning the #NCMRR @NICHD_NIH @NIBIB DEBUT Competition🎊😍!!!
They build a low-cost powered knee #prosthesis🦿 and made the design #opensource for everyone!
https://t.co/loCTCYCe2Z
@UUtah @UtahCoE @UofUNews @UtahMech @UtahBME

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

@lenzetal @KarenKrugerPhD @UofUOrtho @UtahBME @NIH_NIAMS That's huge! Congratulations!

[Lassonde Institute @LassondeInst]

Kai Pruyn, a @utahmech Ph.D. candidate, is using powered assistive devices to improve mobility for stroke survivors. Read this feature from “Student Innovation @ the U” 2024: https://t.co/OC4LQlfHWO

[University of Utah @UUtah]

A top prosthetics researcher, an environmental & public health expert, a prominent neuroscientist, and a distinguished leader in the field of chronic diseases in vulnerable populations have been selected as our new cohort of Presidential Scholars. 👏

📰 https://t.co/PsmVcH0wnZ

[University of Utah @UUtah]

A top researcher in prosthetics, an expert in environmental health & public health challenges, a prominent neuroscientist, & a distinguished leader in the study of chronic diseases in vulnerable populations have been selected as Presidential Scholars.

📰 https://t.co/PsmVcH0wnZ

[University of Utah Technology Licensing Office @UTechLicensing]

Tommaso Lenzi, a @UUtah mechanical engineering professor, combined his background in robotics with physical medicine and rehabilitation in his lab where they are developing technologies that help people move and live more independently.
https://t.co/qfXFUZBv8X

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

Fun to see our lab be featured in the @UUtah Holidays video🎄🎅🎊! 00:45 mark 🦿!

@UtahMech @UtahCoE

[University of Utah @UUtah]

Thank you to our students, staff, faculty, health care providers, alumni, generous donors and friends for everything you do to make the University of Utah a magical place.

Happy Holidays to you, yours and our entire extended U family! 🎄

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

@ScottUhlrich @UtahMech Super excited to have you. Welcome to the @UUtah 🎉!

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

An Editor's Choice piece highlights a study in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation showing how a powered #prosthesis device was capable of improving weight-bearing symmetry during stand-to-sit transitions in above-knee #amputees.

https://t.co/GhbcZKf951

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

Super excited that our recent paper about #amputee #biomechanics with our #robotic #prosthetic leg was featured as Editor's Choice in @SciRobotics this month!🦿🤩🥳
Check it out: "A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions"
https://t.co/ByZR44AKmx

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

8) Thanks for reading! Full paper here: https://t.co/dV241fXvrx (open access)
Congrats to authors @Joel__Mz, Rosie Murray, @GabertLukas, and Tommaso Lenzi.
Thank you to our collaborators: @therealbigfey and Honghai Liu. And thanks to @NIH @NSF @UofUOEH for funding this study!

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

1) In our newest paper, we used A-Mode ultrasound and machine learning to predict lower-limb kinematics while above-knee amputees performed various activities in our recently published paper in IEEE-TBME https://t.co/dV241fXvrx
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#academicTwitter #SciComm #PhDchat

[HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering @LabBionic]

7) Significance: This evaluation of A-mode ultrasound helps us understand its strengths and limitations across different activities, which is necessary in developing safe and intuitive ultrasound-based powered prosthesis controllers. #powered_prosthesis #volitional_control