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A Robotic Ankle in Sierra Leone

The technology was developed by a professor at MIT. He's a double amputee and he has the same problems as people in Sierra Leone. So how do you get a prosthetic leg to be more human? We use a 3D printer to create a multi-material prosthetic socket which relieves pressure when needed on the anatomy of the patient.

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