HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering

We made the TIME's 2023 Best Inventions list 😍🦿🎊! Honored, excited, proud, and grateful for all the fantastic students who worked on this project and made this possible! @UtahCoE @UtahMech @UPIVOTCenter #amputee #Robotic #phdlife #Engineering

Pleased to announce our upcoming @ieee_ras_icra workshop "State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities", co-organized with @GT_EPIC_Lab and @LabBionic

Congratulations to the U-Build Bionic Knee for winning the #NCMRR @NICHD_NIH @NIBIB DEBUT Competition🎊😍!!! They build a low-cost powered knee #prosthesis🦿 and made the design #opensource for everyone! youtube.com/watch?v=xS9t9R… @UUtah @UtahCoE @UofUNews @UtahMech @UtahBME

@lenzetal @KarenKrugerPhD @UofUOrtho @UtahBME @NIH_NIAMS That's huge! Congratulations!

Very excited for my first NIH R01 grant as PI investigating foot and ankle form and function in adults with cerebral palsy. I'm grateful for this collaboration with @KarenKrugerPhD! Thanks to @UofUOrtho @UtahBME @NIH_NIAMS for all the support! medicine.utah.edu/orthopaedics/n…

Kai Pruyn, a @utahmech Ph.D. candidate, is using powered assistive devices to improve mobility for stroke survivors. Read this feature from “Student Innovation @ the U” 2024: lassonde.utah.edu/changing-lives…

A top prosthetics researcher, an environmental & public health expert, a prominent neuroscientist, and a distinguished leader in the field of chronic diseases in vulnerable populations have been selected as our new cohort of Presidential Scholars. 👏 📰 attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/2…

A top researcher in prosthetics, an expert in environmental health & public health challenges, a prominent neuroscientist, & a distinguished leader in the study of chronic diseases in vulnerable populations have been selected as Presidential Scholars. 📰 attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/2…

Tommaso Lenzi, a @UUtah mechanical engineering professor, combined his background in robotics with physical medicine and rehabilitation in his lab where they are developing technologies that help people move and live more independently. technologylicensing.utah.edu/news-events/ac…

Fun to see our lab be featured in the @UUtah Holidays video🎄🎅🎊! 00:45 mark 🦿! @UtahMech @UtahCoE

@ScottUhlrich @UtahMech Super excited to have you. Welcome to the @UUtah 🎉!

Excited to share that I’m joining U of Utah as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in Fall'24. My lab will combine #biomechanics, #computerVision, and #wearables to create scalable tools that improve mobility. PhD positions coming soon. Can’t wait to join @UtahMech!

An Editor's Choice piece highlights a study in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation showing how a powered #prosthesis device was capable of improving weight-bearing symmetry during stand-to-sit transitions in above-knee #amputees. scim.ag/4Gb

Super excited that our recent paper about #amputee #biomechanics with our #robotic #prosthetic leg was featured as Editor's Choice in @SciRobotics this month!🦿🤩🥳 Check it out: "A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions" science.org/doi/full/10.11…

8) Thanks for reading! Full paper here: doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2… (open access) Congrats to authors @Joel__Mz, Rosie Murray, @GabertLukas, and Tommaso Lenzi. Thank you to our collaborators: @therealbigfey and Honghai Liu. And thanks to @NIH @NSF @UofUOEH for funding this study!

7) Significance: This evaluation of A-mode ultrasound helps us understand its strengths and limitations across different activities, which is necessary in developing safe and intuitive ultrasound-based powered prosthesis controllers. #powered_prosthesis #volitional_control

1) In our newest paper, we used A-Mode ultrasound and machine learning to predict lower-limb kinematics while above-knee amputees performed various activities in our recently published paper in IEEE-TBME doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2… 🧵 #academicTwitter #SciComm #PhDchat