John and Marcia Price College of Engineering
Utah Bionic Leg on Time’s best inventions of 2023
Time magazine’s annual list of the best inventions features 200 extraordinary innovations with the capacity to change people’s lives. To compile the list, Time’s editors solicit nominations and accept applications describing groundbreaking work in key fields—such as AI, green energy and sustainability—evaluating each contender on a number of factors, including originality, efficacy, ambition and impact. This year, Time has selected the Utah Bionic Leg as one of the best inventions of 2023, naming it in its “Experimental” category. With its suite of motors, sensors, and controllers, the robotic prosthesis can better replicate the biomechanics of the human knee, ankle and toe, giving it the potential…
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