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Imagining a bionic future:PROPRIO

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen  

When Paul Selmer lost his right leg below the knee in a hunting accident, a doctor fitted him with a standard prosthesis that required a waist belt to swing the wooden foot with each step. Selmer remembers it feeling like a “sandbag.”

That was 28 years ago. The gallery owner and small-aircraft pilot is now a devotee of a high-tech device called a PROPRIO foot , which utilizes sensors, artificial intelligence and microprocessors.

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