A Compact, Lightweight Robotic Ankle-Foot Prosthesis: Featuring a Powered Polycentric Design

Overview

Journal IEEE Robot Autom Mag

Date 2021 Apr 1

PMID 33790527

Citations 17

Authors

Lukas Gabert

Sarah Hood

Minh Tran

Marco Cempini

Tommaso Lenzi

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