Biomedical Assist Devices and New Biomimetic Machines—A Short Perspective
- 9 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by ASME International in Journal of Mechanical Design
- Vol. 127 (4), 799-801
- https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1900747
Abstract
Over the last few decades, new engineering designs have made tremendous impact on the healthcare industry with solutions for diagnosis, treatment, and therapy of a wide range of medical conditions. In recent years, new designs of bio-inspired machines have been proposed for terrestrial and aerial applications. As one would expect, a detailed survey of these areas is impossible to accomplish in a few pages. Hence, this brief survey highlights three topics: (i) Gait rehabilitation machines, (ii) minimal invasive surgical machines, and (iii) flapping wing flying machines.Keywords
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