Tomorrow at 20:00 in our social networks will deliver Daniel Emelin, engineer prosthetist company motility . They are engaged in the creation of upper limb prostheses, 80% of their patients are children.
The guys make two types of prostheses:
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Information is transmitted to the bionic prosthesis by sensors located on the surface of the skin of the stump, in the places of the flexors and extensors of the muscles. The owner makes a movement, the muscles tense, millivolts fly by and the sensor realizes that a signal is being sent to him and the muscles have contracted. Then the signal goes to the controller, the controller transmits it to the microcircuit board, from there it goes to the motors and the prosthesis makes the desired gesture - for example, squeezes the robot brush.
Such cyber-prostheses are not given to everyone, but only to those patients who really need them and who actively used mechanical prostheses. Danil claims that if you give out a complex prosthesis to a person who does not learn how to use it, he will not understand why he needs it and try to resell it on Avito - there are many prostheses on sale right now.
Prostheses are fully paid by the state
Prostheses are quite expensive - a conventional hand prosthesis (mechanics without computerization) costs 150-200 thousand rubles. Computerized prosthesis - 2-2.5 million rubles. But the most remarkable thing is that patients receive it free of charge under the compulsory medical insurance - the guys from Motorik have ensured that prostheses are issued at the expense of state compensation.
Cyborgs in command
Now the Motorkia team is about 50 people: mainly managers, sales people, the design department (RND), electronics engineers, programmers and the largest backbone is the prosthesis production department (assembly and adjustment). Danil has been with the company for 5 years, from the very foundation - he used to be a co-founder of the company, but he sold his share and now works for himself.
The company employs several people with disabilities and, according to Dani, they are completely independent and live even more active lives than ordinary people. For example, his colleague Sergei is a musician without both hands, with prostheses, he works fully, jumps with a parachute, goes snowboarding, and is engaged in rope jumping. At one time, Sergei lost his arms when he climbed onto the electric wires and burned himself.
What Danil will talk about on the air
- how the Russian branch of Marvel drew and released a comic about their little patient
- how Danil came to prosthetics
- why dentures for children should look futuristic and not mimic real limbs
- Lego prostheses - why they can't agree
- where do little patients who need prostheses come from and why they absolutely do not need pity
- how people adapt to dentures
- how a bionic prosthesis works
- Olympic games for cyborgs - how Motorika gave birth to the Russian version of competition
In addition, you can ask him any question in the comments and Danil will answer it during the broadcast.
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