{"id":354,"date":"2010-09-19T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=354"},"modified":"2010-09-19T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:39:00","slug":"robo-flex-pl-wrist-by-medical-bionics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Robo-Flex PL wrist by Medical Bionics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new type of spherical lock out and it seems that this lock now also is sold as prosthetic wrist joint.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbionics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medical Bionics has patents and product<\/a>s. One of their products is a prosthetic wrist that they call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbionics.com\/tech1.php\" target=\"_blank\">RoboFlex PL<\/a> that contains such a spherical lock.\u00a0No word yet as to pricing or stability. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/stuart-fox\/article\/2008-10\/lock-and-roll\" target=\"_blank\">article in Popular Science<\/a> details the technical principles.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite a bit taller than our own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?page_id=332\" target=\"_blank\">PUPP+CH+EN wrist<\/a>, same weight, but definitely not designed to fit on long stumps and it seems to require a shorter stump as it can not contain all protruding pin lock parts due to an absent central bore hole. I do expect this design to start wiggling after a while as it seem to lack a precise shape lock (Formschluss) but looking forward to seeing some people test it with heavy usage and then find out. The wrist does not contain a quick lock, but you can screw terminal devices on and off.<\/p>\n<p>Image (C) Copyright Medical Bionics<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/roboflexballjoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/roboflex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new type of spherical lock out and it seems that this lock now also is sold as prosthetic wrist joint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrist-connector","category-prosthetics","wpcat-25-id","wpcat-8-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 06:58:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}