3D printed flippers
Custom 3D Printed Prosthesis Can Brave the Seven Seas
Worldwide demand for prosthetic specialists is rising, and for good reason: each year in the US, over 150,000 people undergo lower limb amputations, and while that number is considerably lower…
Students Create Buoyancy Compensation Device and 3D Printed Prosthetic Flipper for Sea Turtle
A group of student researchers from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts wrote a paper, titled “Design of a Buoyancy Compensation Device and Prosthetic Flipper for a Green Sea Turtle,”…
Robot with 3D Printed Flippers Helps to Solve a Plesiosaur Puzzle
Over 200 million years ago, during the Triassic period, plesiosaurs first appeared in the ocean. The swimming, flippered reptiles lived for several million years, until the mass extinction that wiped…
