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Tyler Clites

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Making prosthetic limbs feel more natural

Muscle grafts could help amputees sense and control artificial limbs.
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How AI is helping patients with prosthetics

Alicia Lakey receives the Ewing Amputation procedure developed by the Biomechatronics group and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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The whiz kid building a better cyborg

Because old-school surgical amputation hasn’t kept up with modern-day medicine.
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A 29-Year-Old CEO Who's Shaking Up Diagnostics & Other Stories From The 2019 Healthcare 30 Under 30

Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.
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Congratulations to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.
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Prosthetic limb restores a sense of body position

New device gives an amputee the ability to feel the location of his foot
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Three MIT graduate students awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention

Media Tyler PhD students among 14 collegiate inventors awarded the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
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Cure it! Tyler Clites wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) and Pollex Grasp

Tyler Clites, a PhD candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, says his fascination with invention began when …
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Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Graduate Winner: Tyler Clites

The AMI works to connect the brain to a prosthesis in a manner that more closely replicates the biological control experience.
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Pioneering surgery makes a prosthetic foot feel like the real thing

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For hours on end last year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ran the brain-controlled robotic limb throug…
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Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.
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Two Media Lab researchers awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes

Guy Satat and Tyler Clites won in the "Drive It!" and "Cure It!" categories, respectively