{"id":12353,"date":"2022-03-20T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2024-07-18T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:45:50","slug":"is-european-eu-erc-horizon-cordis-funded-research-into-prosthetic-arm-title-related-subjects-getting-like-anywhere-like-at-all-with-regard-to-physically-demanding-work-use-547-million-eu-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=12353","title":{"rendered":"Is European (EU, ERC, Horizon, Cordis) funded research into prosthetic arm title related subjects getting, like, anywhere, like, at all with regard to physically demanding work use? [54,7 Million EU in total, TL;DR: no]"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the website of EU-sponsored “research into prosthetic arms” (ERC, Horizon) [link<\/a>], one can find a range of in-te-res-ting<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> projects.<\/p>\n

These are in-te-res-ting, particularly, because they do not<\/em>, from my direct, hand\/s on, applied and I would say very widely invested experience, constitute true innovation, and not true developments in any truly useful fashion – most definitely not, from where I am standing. Clearly, I am regarding this from my personal view – but if you believe I am the only person that is affected by an apparent lack of wide support for what I call useful prosthetic arm part, then that is that.<\/p>\n

And where am I standing on that? Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One could weep about how much money is wasted there, weep all day and all night. Or just see if there would be any reason to conduct a review, discussion, or consideration of these works in directions that defy rational understanding at least from a view of a real work delivering real prosthetic arm real user such as myself.<\/p>\n

Because in essence, all these forays and all the activism shown here leave the real user of a real prosthetic arm used for real work stranded. No one to look out for us. We are alone. And from there it is survival of the fittest. The current research and development focus directly impacts the real users at real work forefronts in that they leave us stranded. And we solve our own problems. The in-te-resting thing there is that private companies that truly are private are certainly free to play with ideas however they please. But once we look at taxpayer money, not private industries money on the free market, that goes into insurances that pay for overpriced useless junk prostheses, once we look at taxpayer money that goes into or is routed towards gigantic research projects such as ERC or Horizon, then this becomes a res publica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then who gets to play gatekeeper of taxpayer money becomes key. If anything it is clear that in relation to prosthetic arm research, the ones that do NOT get to play gatekeeper are real users with real work performed with real prosthetic arms. So in other words, I am convinced that we are looking at a gigantic waste of money.<\/p>\n

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