Optimizing Ankle-Foot Prosthesis Mechanics

Before there was Caplex, developers of prosthetic foot technologies had no choice but to build prototype after prototype in the pursuit of perfection. In 2010, Josh Caputo, Steve Collins, and Peter Adamczyk came together and began to build an emulation paradigm that today is enabling researchers, developers, and clinician scientists around the world to iterate on prosthetic foot design parameters more quickly, efficiently, and effectively. Proof-of-concept work at Carnegie Mellon University with 1- and 2-degree-of-freedom emulators paved the way for future development of a 3-degree-of-freedom emulator at Stanford University, Clinical Decision-Making with Caplex between Humotech and the DoD & VA, Demystifying Biarticular Actuation between Humotech and Vanderbilt University, and more!