Controller makes prosthetic arms more flexible

The Boston Digital Arm provides amputees with unique, upper limb prostheses using the control optimised performance and integration offered by TI's TMS320C2000 digital signal controllers.

The Boston Digital Arm from Liberating Technologies provides amputees with unique, upper limb prostheses that are dramatically more flexible and capable, due to the control optimised performance and integration offered by TI's TMS320C2000 digital signal controllers.

The Boston Digital Arm upper limb prostheses allows users to control movement of five joints or axes, whereas competing solutions only permit control of up to three joints, allowing a greater range of flexibility and programmability - providing patients with an optimal, customised solution, enabling more lifelike movement and sensitivity and the ability to apply variable amounts of force to a gripping task.

Until recently, upper limb prostheses were based