He became the first person to play in a Division I baseball game with a prosthetic leg. Parker Byrd made history in East Carolina University's 16-2 victory over Rider in Friday's season opener.
Study author Professor Hugh Herr, himself an amputee, says: 'This is the first prosthetic study in history that shows a leg prosthesis under full neural modulation, where a biomimetic gait emerges.' ...
The bionic leg uses electrodes and a microprocessor to read Vawter’s intentions via muscle contractions in his thigh. Partially funded by the U.S. Army, prosthetics like these could eventually ...