| As technology advances, 3D printed prostheses are becoming more advanced and tailored to specific types of amputations and lifestyles.Recently, a New Zealand research team has launched an important new project to explore the future of artificial limbs Design possibilities for 3D printing, both short-term and long-term, under the leadership of Artificial Body Services in New Zealand, the research project in collaboration with the University of Wellington explores the possibility of implementing these new growth potential in commercial manufacturing.  The project is broadly divided into four sections, each covering a different design direction with prosthesis access with 3D printing. In the short term, the team will focus on new functional fairings in the next 12-18 months And new outlet designs. In the next seven to 10 years, multi-density footprints and production-information-driven models are seen as possibilities. The concept of a functional fairing is to find new uses and the use of prostheses, not just the replacement of missing limbs, which can improve the lives of many amputees and translate what is considered a loss into something potential , Opening up a more creative and practical space that only those prosthetic users can access.The team came up with a sports fairing for an example of a special prosthetic golf leg.This will have a special golf design, As well as a spare ball and tee storage area.It may also have special children's finishing, creative design, the feeling of appealing to their fun and imagination. With the new socket design, which can be adjusted to fluctuate in size over time, it is no harder for users to wear artificial limbs than to wear shoes, and the team contacted Oakland Bioengineering to better understand this with 3D printing technology Personalization possibilities Soft tissue scans generate an accurate volumetric grid of the patient's limbs, enabling technicians to see which areas of the stump are sensitive, which ones are hard, and which ones are soft, which means they can be better Expressed how to design the socket design Experiments with ABS and more advanced TPU materials, the latter with more promise in terms of material properties, but long post-processing inconveniences. There are many multi-density 3D printing systems in other areas, and future NZALS methods can be inspired by such things as Nervous Systems 3D printing midsole technology for New Balance or a similar Materialise-based system used by Adidas 3D printing TPU As the development direction of multi-density prosthesis, we hope that the future technology will be further improved in order to print with this material. Prosthetic Information-Driven Model-Generated Future The implementation of the soft-tissue scans described above, and the so-called Computational Anatomical Movement, should be seen.Through scanning, tracking and video analysis, researchers can examine the strength of each muscle, as well as specific The patient is taking gait and various other body movement factors to create a more personalized fix and improve comfort and performance. Researchers tested Stratasys Fortus and UpBox FDM machines and discovered the strengths and weaknesses of each machine, concluding that the best solution is to use online 3D printing services that provide more efficient printing, and Shapeways I. Materialise and Objective 3D. According to Sean Gray, chief executive of NZALS, New Zealanders are leaders in the development of prosthetic technology because they tend to test limb limits and 'people break them because they've put them in ski boots' ... NZALS has shown great promise to work with the University of Wellington and other partner agencies and will soon bring significant quality improvements to amputees there and beyond. |
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