An invention by a team of scientists at Poznań University of Technology, ‘Modular prosthesis of a hand designed for children with disabilities to cooperate with the handlebars of a bicycle or a scooter’, has won the competition ‘EUREKA! GPD – we discover Polish inventions’. The idea behind the competition is to present inventions in the pages of ‘Dziennik Gazeta Prawna’ that have practical applications, can be used in the economy and in production. 

The traditional process of producing prostheses is long and expensive, and in the case of children, whose artificial limbs are more likely to be damaged, their production is even more complicated – because with their low weight they need to be more resistant to fractures.

The innovative method of the Poznan University of Technology researchers uses a 3D printer. Thanks to a prosthesis produced in this way, children with amputations of the hand can maintain physical activity and keep up, for example on bicycles or scooters, with their non-disabled peers.

Read more: https://www.put.poznan.pl/artykul/wynalazek-z-politechniki-poznanskiej-laureatem-konkursu-eureka