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Friction
TED Radio Hour
The Problem With a Prosthetic Socket in Sierra Leone
When I started this, I thought, look, this is a Sierra Leone problem because that's what I knew. And then I went to the US and I met Professor Hugh Herr,. He's a double amputee himself. Here was a tenured MIT professor with all kinds of patents who runs his own lab. So we said, okay, if the body is made up of multi-material, then a prosthetic interface is socket that is also multi-material will minimize internal stresses and strains. You essentially just want to have soft where you need soft, but you also want to be structural.
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