Project objectives
The project aims to produce low-cost prosthetic and orthotic solutions that can benefit a large number of patients, for home use, during the performance of daily life activities. This objective, until a few years ago impossible to achieve on a large scale due to the production costs linked to a customized process, seems to be achievable today thanks to the diffusion of a series of enabling technologies which make custom robotics economically sustainable.
Digital manufacturing technologies (3D scanning and 3D printing) offer, in this context, a series of advantages: they allow the rapid creation of low-cost devices, which faithfully replicate the anatomical characteristics of the patient, they allow the monitoring of the mechanical properties of the single details, allow the creation of smart components with integrated custom sensory equipment and allow the creation of soft structures to improve the wearability of the device and/or replicate the characteristics of the fabrics.
From the point of view of the IoT, the use of digital manufacturing technologies also makes it possible to imagine a production process distributed throughout the territory, with specific phases in charge of the different professionals at their workplaces, and similarly a network of assistance structures directed to patients, in a scenario that is overall effective, efficient and able to achieve important economies of scale.
Start and end date
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June 2020 - June 2023 |
Scientific manager
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Responsible: Prof.ssa Loredana Zollo - Co-responsible: Eng. Fabrizio Taffoni |
Responsible for clinical activities
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Prof. Vincenzo Denaro, Prof. Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Prof. Giovanni Di Pino, Prof Silvia Sterzi |
Coordinating institution of the project
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Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma |
Other institutions involved
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National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL) |
Funding source
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National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL) |
