BMES Pediatric Prosthetic Design

RIT's Biomedical Engineering Society initiated a design contest to present to this year's Imagine RIT. Members of the club came up with a pediatric prosthetic arm that can be adjusted as the child grows. Using an Xbox Kinect V2 scanner a scan of an arm would be used to make a more accurate prosthetic protype. It goes a little past the elbow and is meant to tackle some of the issues that come with child prosthetics. These issues include flexibility and size. Because children grow so quickly, child prosthetics are not as refined and flexible as those made for adults. As of now, not many prosthetics are made to change size with the child. Which is what the members working on this project wanted to address. They wanted to make it more flexible and akin to actual arm movement while making it size adjustable for a growing child.

Kaitlyn's Initial Prototype Drawing

Maggie's Initial Prototype Drawing

Alex's Fusion hand

Kaitlyn's Hinge

Micheal's Arm Scan

Emanuel's Fusion servo