This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 4Brenneis, Dylan
- 1Dawson, Michael
- 1Evans, Katherine
- 1Hebert, Jacqueline (Dr.)
- 1Michael (Rory) Dawson, Jaden Travnik, Patrick Pilarski
- 1Pilarski, Patrick (Dr.)
- 2Automatic Levelling
- 2Compensatory Movement
- 2Prosthesis
- 2Wrist
- 1Artificial limbs--Automatic control
- 1Research image
-
Spring 2019
Upper limb amputation is a debilitating condition that affects over 41,000 people in the United States alone. Largely because of limitations in wrist prostheses, many people affected by upper limb amputation are compelled to use compensatory movements to perform tasks of daily living, which often...
-
Spring 2019
Upper limb amputation is a debilitating condition that affects over 41,000 people in the United States alone. Largely because of limitations in wrist prostheses, many people affected by upper limb amputation are compelled to use compensatory movements to perform tasks of daily living, which often...
-
2016-01-01
Advances in robotic medical technologies have enabled an emerging generation of upper limb prostheses capable of moving with the same complexity and fluidity as a human arm. Yet even the most advanced commercially available systems are unable to communicate sensations of touch and movement to the...
-
2017-01-01
The image depicts a robotic hand expressing its identity through self-portraiture, challenging the viewer to reconsider the role of a prosthetic hand as simply a crude replacement. While this level of dexterity and intelligence is still beyond the capabilities of prosthetic limbs, it is entirely...