- Peter Kyberd
Peter Kyberd is a professor at the
University of New Brunswick 's Institute of Biomedical Engineering [ [http://www.unb.ca/biomed/people_kyberd.php UNB Institute of Biomedical Engineering - People - Peter Kyberd ] ] , and a leading authority on control of prosthetic limbs, a subject he has been working on since the late 1980s [ [http://www.ficcdat.ca/Conference/Keynote.aspx?lang=en-US&ConfID=6 FICCDAT - Keynote Speakers ] ] , including a highly publicised collaboration withKevin Warwick andMark Gasson at theUniversity of Reading , using implanted electrodes to control a robotic arm. [ [http://www.isrg.reading.ac.uk/news.htm?viewnews&ID=00047 The University of Reading - Interactive Systems Research Group - Latest News ] ] In addition to his peer-reviewed scientific publications his work has been featured in popular science journals such asElectronics Times . [Electronics Times, Feb 26, 2001]Kyberd has a first class degree from
Durham University , hisPhD was awarded in 1990 for work on a prosthetic hand atSouthampton University , and his subsequent career saw this followed through the Oxford Orthopaedic Engineering Centre, his work at Reading and currently in Canada.One early innovation was the use of sensitive
microphone s to detect when an object gripped by a prosthetic hand was slipping. Using this, he was able to pick up a raw egg without breaking it. He has also focused on duplicating the complex axes of movement of the hand, particularly the thumb. [ [http://tim.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/137 "Design and development of a dextrous manipulator"] , Harris M, Kyberd P, Harwin W S, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Vol. 27, No. 2, 137-152 (2005)]References
External links
* [http://www.isrg.reading.ac.uk/publications.htm?viewpublication&ID=01157 "Progress of a modular prosthetic arm"] , A Poulton, P J Kyberd, D Gow, Universal Access and Assistive Technology, Springer, ISBN 1852335955, 2002.
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