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Wireless Myoelectric Sensor Minimization And Packaging, Ásbjörg Einarsdóttir, Pedro Irazoqui Dr.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Many people suffer from amputation, which affects their lives severely by disabling them from doing chores in their daily life as well as chores related to work and leisure. For the last years, prosthetics’ development has been fast and the devices that are being used now are a miracle compared to what has been used before. But still, the battle is not over yet. Although scientists have techniques and devices to use nerve residues from the amputated limb to control the prosthetic, smaller devices that can detect the signals from those nerves better need to be developed. In this research …