{"id":2750,"date":"2013-10-25T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:15","slug":"vise-affiliate-named-to-popular-mechanics-top-10-innovators-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/vise-affiliate-named-to-popular-mechanics-top-10-innovators-list\/","title":{"rendered":"ViSE affiliate named to \u2018Popular Mechanics\u2019 top 10 innovators list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Popular Mechanics<\/em> has named Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, one of its \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/engineering\/news\/10-innovators-who-changed-the-world-in-2013#slide-5\">Ten Innovators Who Changed The World<\/a>\u201d for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Goldfarb, who develops robotic adaptive equipment for people with  disabilities, and his former graduate student Ryan Farris were  recognized for the Indego, an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2012\/10\/exoskeleton\/\">exoskeleton<\/a> they developed at 国产传媒 to help paraplegics stand and walk. Farris  now works for motion control technology company Parker Hannifin, which  has licensed Goldfarb\u2019s technology and hopes to bring a mass-produced  exoskeleton to rehab facilities and then to consumers in the next few  years.<\/p>\n<p>Goldfarb has also developed a revolutionary <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2011\/08\/bionic-leg\/\">\u201cbionic\u201d leg<\/a> prosthesis, which mimics the movement of a natural leg much better than  a conventional prosthesis. The leg, which has been licensed and is  being brought to market by Freedom Innovations, is also being used by  researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to test  technology that links the lower-limb prosthesis to the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Goldfarb and Farris are recognized alongside innovators including  researchers at GE working on driverless car systems, and the project  scientists behind the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/solutions\/healthcare.php\">Learn more about\u00a0国产传媒 engineers\u00a0research in medicine and health.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Mechanics has named Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, one of its \u201cTen Innovators Who Changed The World\u201d for 2013. Goldfarb, who develops robotic adaptive equipment for people with disabilities, and his former graduate student Ryan Farris were recognized for the Indego, an exoskeleton they developed at 国产传媒 to help paraplegics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[231],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-Im","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}